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Restaurants And Taverns — A Potential E&O Headache
Restaurants and taverns cause more than their fair share of ...

... and the carrier wont do so until they have their app. You'll need to complete affidavits to show that the standard market won't write your risk Since Surplus Lines is free of rate and form in most states, the forms might not be familiar. Make it a standard practice in your agency to review new policies and to compare them with the old forms. If you can't get comparable coverage, notify the client. Be sure to request a copy of the policy form from the wholesaler. Check the financial rating of the Surplus Lines carrier. If you're not sure, ask the wholesaler. Remember: there's no Guaranty Fund with Surplus Lines carriers. Exercise extreme caution! Here's an E&O claim that illustrates these issues: The claim against the agency was for failure to provide a client tavern owner with adequate Liability coverage. There was a fatal shooting at the tavern when a 14-year-old girl attempted an armed robbery. An intoxicated patron tried to disarm the girl, but was killed in the struggle. The patron's estate sued the tavern for failure to maintain safe premises. The agent submitted the lawsuit to the General Liability carrier, who denied the claim on the basis of an Assault and Battery exclusion. The agent gave notice to the Liquor Liability carrier, who also denied coverage because there were no Liquor Liability allegations in the complaint. The client then sued the agent, alleging that the agent told him that Assault and Battery coverage was included. The agency quote was for General and Liquor Liability, but didn't include the requested Assault and Battery coverage, even though the carrier offered it ...

... 59 PM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Paige Proctor This content has not been rated yet. MOVING A BOOK OF BUSINESS by Paige Proctor As insurance companies restructure, reposition, and reevaluate their effectiveness in the marketplace, change is inevitable. Your agency will be affected, especially if you happen to represent a company going through one of these changes. Most commonly, you will need to move all or a part of a book of business. This has certainly been a part of agency life in the past, and I believe we'll be seeing much more of it in the future. Here's a concrete example of how an agency can be affected by dramatic change. I am currently working with an agency that has been forced to move more than $2 million of business involving trucks, restaurants, and taverns. This agency is a target industry marketer, and the regional carrier with which this sizable book of business was placed was recently acquired by a national insurance carrier. Within three months of the ownership change, the national carrier decided to eliminate truck, tavern, and restaurant insurance. Worse, most of the accounts were not large, so a rather sizeable number of policies must be moved to other insurance carriers. There are many such stories currently going on. You can probably think of one or two examples in which changes in company ownership or in books of business between companies has adversely affected agencies. If rolling over a book of business is a fact of life, it makes a lot of sense to learn how to approach it positively, so that the effect on the agency is ...

...nvolving trucks, restaurants, and taverns. This agency is a target industry ma...