Chapter 2a - Non- marine Risks Written In The London Market Flashcards
Non-marine classes of business
Physical Damage:
- Agricultural crop and forestry/hail
- Bloodstock/livestock
- Contingency
- Personal accident and health
- Property including onshore energy
- Business interruption
- Homeowners
Non-marine liability:
- Directors and Officers
- Errors and Omissions/Professional indemnity/Professional negligence and Med Mal
- Public liability
- Products liability
- Employers liability
- General liability/comprehensive general liability
Non-marine other:
- Financial guarantee
- Extortion/malicious product tamper/contamination
- Product recall
- War
- Terrorism and political violence
- Cyber
- Mergers and acquisitions
Aviation classes of business
Physical damage:
- Physical damage to aircraft
- Property insurance for airport buildings
- Drone/unmanned aerial vehicle
Liability:
- Airline liability
Other aviation:
- Aviation war
- Loss of licence
- Loss of use
- Aviation repossession
- Contingent hull, liability, or war
- Space
Marine classes of business
Physical damage:
- Vessels
- Cargo
- Offshore energy
Marine liability:
- Shipowners liability
- Professional negligence
- Ports liability
Other types of marine cover:
- Loss of hire/earnings
- Specie/jewellers block
- Fine art
- Cash in transit
- Political risks
- Contract frustration or trade credit
- Bond risks
Motor insurance
Standard motor written by composite insurers and specialist insurers
Some motor written in London Market
Overseas motor also written, split into:
EU/EEA
USA/Canada
Rest of world
Physical damage and liability covered
Innocent victim must be protected - insurers can’t always rely on insurance law due to this, so must fully understand nature of risk before agreeing to cover it.
LM uses delegated underwriting contracts
Agricultural crop and forestry/hail insurance
Crops farmed commercially
- main peril is loss of crop
- hazard is weather or disease
Eg. Loss of crop through hail or frost damage
Bloodstock/livestock insurance
Bloodstock: Covers racehorses and show jumpers
Livestock: Covers all animals that can be reared commercially
Perils - sickness, injury, total loss for racehorse, loss of value (unable to breed when put to stud), loss by disease.
Contingency insurance
Concert/event cancellation/abandonment - cost of refunding tickets and rearranging event
Over redemption - cost of more redemption than expected(coupons etc)
Prize indemnity - covers cost of prize for charity event if won or drinks for hole in one
Personal accident and health insurance
Personal Accident:
- Benefits policy, benefits paid weekly/monthly for agreed period for injury or lump sum for permanent disablement
Personal accident and sickness:
- sudden onset illness eg heart failure
Kidnap and ransom
- payment of ransom
- cost of medical treatment and payment of salary
- payment for hostage negotiators
Property insurance including onshore energy
Made up at least 1/4 of Lloyd’s business in 2018 and IUA.
Property: Construction insurance
Construction insurance:
- Head contractor take out CAR insurance
- Policy period should match contract period
- Maintenance period for 12 months after completion
- Covers loss/damage to BWs, machinery movement, BI, PL and EL, damage to plant (machinery)
- EAR can be absorbed by CAR policy but often bought separate
- EAR covers loss/damage to equipment, liability if insured/equipment causes damage
Property: Property insurance
Property:
Cover depends on uses of property
- Buildings
- Machinery
- Stock
Can purchase “all risks” or just fire by itself and add on any further perils if needed.
- fire can include damage caused by putting it out
- not a chemical reaction where no ignition
Other cover: lightning, explosion, earthquake, aircraft, riots/strikes, malicious acts, storm/flood/EOW, impact damage, sprinkler leakage, subsidence
What does Expediting Expenses cover for under Property/Onshore energy?
Cover to pay for extra costs eg overtime, air freight charges for parts to repair
What will property insurers never cover??
- Inherent vice (inevitable natural behaviours such as iron rusting)
- Trade risks eg failure of creditor to pay their bills
- Normal settlement of new buildings
- War risks
- Radioactive contamination
- Anything insured elsewhere
- Any property insured for marine perils
What risks would property insurers provide as ‘buy-backs’?
- Fraud and employee dishonesty
- Theft
- Subsidence
- Jewellery
- Goods in transit
- Fixed glass
- Sanitary ware
- Money
- Land, bridges, and civil engineering works
- Crops and trees
What does property insurance use as one of the options for indemnifying the insured in event of loss or damage?
Concept of reinstatement
- Insurer agrees to make good the property lost or damaged and takes over property during period of reinstatement
What would Property insurers expect to be on more specialist policies?
- Buildings in CoC
- Livestock
- Consequential loss
- Computers
- Vehicles licensed for road use
- Own steam and other pressure plant