Business Auto Flashcards
3 Types of Auto Coverages
- Business Auto Coverage form
- Motor Carrier Coverage
- Auto Dealers Coverage Form
2 Coverages on BAP
Liability from ownership, maintenance or use of autos
Physical damage for loss to certain covered autos
Auto Decs Item 1 (5)
○ NI
○ Policy period
○ Form of business
○ Premium
○ Endorsements
Auto Decs Item 2 (3)
○ Coverages
○ Autos
- Limits
Mobile Equipment definition (what’s not mobile equipment 5)
§ Snow removal
§ Road maintenance, but not construction or resurfacing
§ Street cleaening
§ Cherry pickers or similar devices
Air compressors, pumps and generators
Covered Autos Designation Symbols (10)
3 and 4 are related
5 and 6 are related
8 and 9 are related
Symbol 1
- ANY auto liability
- Broadest liability coverage
- No need for other #’s
Symbol 2
- Owned Autos only
- Coverage for non-owned trailers while attached to owned autos
Symbol 3
- Private passenger autos owned at inception of policy and autos of same type acquired during policy
- Private passenger not defined. Determined by UW
Symbol 4
- Owned Autos Other than Private Passenger Autos Only
○ Same as symbol 3 but not private passenger
Symbol 5
- Owned Autos Subject to no-Fault
- For states requiring no fault benefits
- Includes newly acquired
Symbol 6
- Owned Autos Subject to Compulsory UM laws
- For states requiring uninsured motorist coverage
Symbol 7
- Specifically described autos
- Have to be scheduled on decs2
- Coverage for non-owned trailers attached to scheduled auto
Symbol 8
- Hired autos only
- Autos the NI leases, hires, rents, or borrows
- Doesn’t include autos leased, hired, rented or borrowed from employees, partners or members, or members of their households
- Can add liability and PD
Symbol 9
- Non-Owned Autos
- Autos the insured doesn’t
○ Own
○ Lease
○ Hire
○ Rent
○ Borrow
○ And these autos are used in connection with biz
- Includes autos owned by NI’s
○ Employees
○ Partners or members
○ Or members of their households
Symbol 19
- Mobile equipment subject to compulsory or Financial Responsibility or Other Motor Vehicle Insurnace Law Only
- States requiring mobile equipment have insurance
- Makes no reference to ownership of the mobile equipment
Should always be included if symbol 7 is used for liability coverage
Symbol 10 (2)
Customize coverage
Negotiated description to meet need of NI
Newly Acquired Autos (which symbols auto include it 7 / Symbol 7 when it applies 3)
- Automatically included in these symbols
○ 1,2,3,4,5,6,19 (1-6 + 19) - Symbol 7
○ Auto Coverage IF
§ Insurer provides coverage for all owned autos or auto replaces previously owned auto with that coverage AND
§ Notifies insurer within 30 days of acquisition that you want coverage
○ Additional Auto will have coverages that ALL autos have
○ Replacement auto takes coverage of Auto it’s Replacing
Covered Autos - Certain Trailers 1 , Mobile Equipment 1, and Temp Sub Autos (3)
Covered autos for liability only
Trailers
§ Under 3k pounds
Mobile equipment
§ Carried or towed by covered auto
Temp Sub of an owned covered auto because of its
§ Breakdown
§ Repair
§ Servicing
§ Loss; or Destruction
Covered Autos Liability - Who is an Insured (2 and second one has 5 exceptions)
NI for any covered autos
Others with NI permission for covered auto the NI owns, hires, borrows EXCEPT (A OPEL)
○ Owner of a car you hire or borrow
○ Employee if auto is owned by them or their household
○ Auto business except in the NI’s (example of a brake shop testing the brakes on the NI’s car and crashes. NI gets coverage but auto shop doesn’t)
○ Loading or unloading from a covered autos (other than employees)
- Partner or member’s individually owned autos
Endorsements that Modify Insured Status (2 - First has 4, second has 3)
Individual NI
○ Giving personal auto coverage to an individual with a BAP and no personal policy
○ At least one Private passenger type vehicle must be on policy
○ Provides personal auto coverage for NI, their spouse and family as well as non-owned coverage
○ Non-owned doesn’t include any auto that is:
§ Owned by any family members
§ Furnished or made available for regular use
§ Used in “the business” of selling, servicing, repairing or parking autos
§ That is not a private passenger type, while working in any other business or occupation
○ Physical damage provided if provided under the BAP for the scheduled vehicle
Drive Other Car Coverage - Broadened Covered for NI
○ Personal use of non-owned auto but only to individual listed on endt
○ Only extends to spouse Coverages selected in decs can extend
Employees as Insureds Endt 2
- Insured status to employee who use their own personal autos to conduct the NI’s business
- Liability provided on an excess basis
Non-ownership Liability Coverage for Volunteers Endt 2
Extends coverage to volunteers using their personal autos to help the NI’s business
Provides coverage to anyone furnishing the auto to the volunteer but not owned by volunteer
Employee Hired Autos Endt 2
Insured status for an auto rented under an employee’s name for biz use with NI permission
Physical damage provided as auto is considered owned
Volunteer Hired Autos Endt 2
Rented under volunteers name and used to help NI business
Considered owned auto by NI
Lessor - AI and LP Endt 1
Leasing company requiring they are listed as LP and AI in policy
Employee as Lessor Endt 1
Leasing company requiring they are listed as LP and AI in policy
Employee as Lessor endt 1
Provide isnured status to employee who leases their auto to NI
Partners or members as insureds endt 1
Adding members or Partners as AI for covered autos
Hired Autos Specified as Covered Auto You Own endt 2
Insured status to owner of vehicle leased to NI as an owned auto.
On a primary basis but only for vehicle on the schedule