AINS 22 B Flashcards
Three general categories of people eligible for coverage under the ISO 2011 HO:
Individuals/families who own a private home in which they reside; rent or lease the premises in which they reside; own private condominium units used for residential purposes.
Meets most needs of owner-occupants for dwelling, other structures, and personal property coverage. Designed to meet the risk management needs of owner-occupants of dwellings.
HO-2
Provides special form coverage on dwellings and other structures. Also known as open perils coverage, protects property against direct physical loss that is not otherwise excluded by the coverage form. Provides named perils coverage for personal property.
HO-3 (Special Form)
Provides coverage for a tenant’s personal property on a named perils basis. Does not provide coverage for dwellings or other structures. Designed to meet the risk management needs of tenants and other occupants of apartments or dwellings.
HO-4 (Contents Broad form)
Provides open perils coverage on dwellings, other structures, and personal property. Designed to meet the risk management needs of owner-occupants of dwellings who would like the broadest coverage available among ISO’s forms for their property.
HO-5 (Comprehensive Form)
Provides coverage for personal property on a named perils basis, with limited dwelling coverage. Designed to meet the risk management needs of the owners of condominium units and cooperative apartment shares. Includes special provisions for loss exposures inherent in condo and cooperative unit ownership.
HO-6 (Unit Owners Form)
If a two-, three, or four-family dwelling is co-owned by the families who reside there, one of the owner-occupant forms may be issued in the name of one of the owner-occupants, while the others are named on what? This covers each party’s interest in the building.
Additional Insured Endorsement (HO 04 14).
Provides coverage for a dwelling, other structures, and personal property on a limited, named perils basis. Designed to meet the risk management needs of owners-occupants of dwellings that may not meet insurer underwriting standards required for other policy forms.
HO-8 (Modified Coverage Form)
The cost of replacing damaged property with similar property that performs the same function but might not be identical to the damaged property.
Functional replacement cost
A homeowner wishes the broadest coverage for his home and contents. Which of the six ISO Homeowners program forms would be best for his needs?
HO-5 (Comprehensive Form)
Which endorsement provides replacement cost coverage on personal property, awnings, carpeting, household appliances, and outdoor equipment? (These items are covered on ACV basis on an unendorsed HO-3 form.
Personal Property Replacement Cost Less Settlement endorsement (HO 04 90 05 11)
A homeowners policy premium is determined by first developing the base premium. The base premium is based on what factors?
Dwelling location, public protection class, construction factors, coverage amount, and the policy form selected.
Property insurance coverage covering all causes of loss not specifically excluded.
Special form coverage
An insurance policy in which the covered causes of loss are listed or “named” in the policy.
Named perils coverage
Insurance for property specifically listed on a policy, with a limit of liability for each item.
Schedule coverage
Endorsement designed to help prevent underinsurance caused by economic inflation and rising replacement costs.
Inflation Guard
Provides a means to buy coverage for this an earthquake.
Earthquake endorsement
Coverage to a relative of an insured who is a resident of a facility that provides assisted living services, such as meals, medical supervision, house keeping, and social activities.
Assisted Living Care Coverage
Provides a higher limit of coverage, up to $10,000, for losses resulting from unauthorized use of an insured’s credit card, bank transfer card, check forgery, or acceptance of counterfeit money.
Credit Card, Electronic Fund Transfer Card or Access Device, Forgery and Counterfeit Money Coverage - Increased Limit
For insureds who operate an office/business from their homes.
HOMEBIZ
Any individual who owns a house could discover after a loss that repairs or upgrades must be made in order to comply with current ordinances or laws.
Ordinance / Law - increased amounts of coverage
Coverage for water or waterborne materials that originate from within the insured’s dwelling and back up through sewers or drains, or that overflow from a sump, sump pump, or related equipment.
Limited Water Back-Up and Sump Discharge or Overflow Coverage
Supplements additional charges (insureds living in communities with a neighborhood association are charged a monthly fee to cover the cost of the maintenance and upkeep of the common areas of the neighborhood) with an additional amount of insurance for the premises named in the endorsement. Also lists additional locations and schedule an amount of insurance for them.
Supplemental Loss Assessment Coverage
Indicates a starting date and an ending date within the policy period when the residency requirement will be removed from the definition of residence premises in a homeowners policy. This endorsement can be used when an insured may not be planning to reside in the premises on the inception date of the policy due to, for example, extensive renovations being made to the property prior to occupancy.
Broadened Residence Premises Definition Endorsement
Clarify that the HO-3 policy does not provide any property/liability coverage for home-sharing exposures. Adds new definitions for home-sharing activities and revises the existing definition of “business” to specifically address home-sharing host activities.
Home-Sharing Host Activities Amendatory Endorsement
Designed for insureds who own rental property not at the insured location.
Additional Residence Rented to Others - 1, 2, 3, or 4 Families
Used to provide property and liability coverage for home-sharing host activities.
Broadened Home-Sharing Host Activities Coverage Endorsement
Section 1 coverage listed on declaration, listed as the “dwelling” on the “residence premises” and includes structures attached to the dwelling.
Dwelling (A)
Structures on residence premises, other than dwelling building. NOT attached to the dwelling (shed, pool, detached garage).
Other Structures (B)
Contents of the insured premises and personal property owned/used by an insured anywhere in the world (luggage, borrowed skis that are stolen).
Personal Property (C)
Insured’s exposure to financial loss, apart from property damage itself, if premises where the insured resides are damaged so badly they are unfit for use.
Loss of Use (D)
Certain direct property losses or consequential expenses that are not covered by A, B, C, or D.
Additional Coverages
Section II, third party coverage for those who are injured/property damaged by insured. (Basic limit typically $100,000).
Personal Liability (E)
Necessary medical expenses incurred by others (not an insured) within three years of injury.
Medical Payments to Others (F)
Provides named perils coverage for personal property.
HO-3
Minimum deductible for the ISO Homeowners program is:
$500
The following Section I Exclusions (weather - contributes to any previous excluded perils, acts or decisions, or damage from faulty planning, zoning, surveying, designing, workmanship, construction, renovation, materials, & maintenance) apply to which two property coverages?
A (Dwelling) and B (Other Structures)