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Umbrella Insurance: What It Is and What It Covers
Everyone has heard of a lawsuit horror story that cost a family or business millions of dollars in fees and damages. Umbrella insurance policies help cover those extraordinary costs so that your clients can sleep well knowing they aren’t one accident away from insolvency. However, not everyone knows what an umbrella policy is or how…
How to Sell High-Limit Hotel Umbrella Insurance
This is an excerpt from our free “How to Sell Umbrella Insurance” eBook. Click here to download your copy. For the most part, hotels recognize the importance of purchasing Hotel Umbrella insurance to supplement the liability limits in their underlying policies. In the last several years, however, liability claims have resulted in multi-million-dollar verdicts or…
Fine Dining Restaurant Insurance: The Details Brokers Need
Fine dining experiences set themselves apart by attending to the details. Every bite, ingredient, and placement on the dish has been carefully considered so that the customer just has to sit back and enjoy. When shopping for insurance, restauranteurs expect the same level of professionalism — every policy, price, and coverage needs to perfectly complement…
Hotel Insurance Costs and Coverages for Brokers
Coverages and costs. When it comes down to brass tacks, this is what matters to the insured. They want to know that their hotel insurance will cover them when they need it to and won’t cost them a small fortune. You need to put hotel insurance coverages and costs in perspective, so you can answer…
How Much Does Builder’s Risk Insurance Cost and Who Pays for It?
Note: Distinguished Programs no longer offers Builder’s Risk or Vacant Building insurance. Explore our other programs for tailored solutions. The bottom line for most insurance packages is cost: how much will it cost your customer in dollars, and how much will it cost you in patience to explain the size of their premiums? We joke,…
3 Reasons Umbrella Insurance for Rental Properties is Essential
If you were to skydive, would you want one chute or two? The obvious answer is two because skydiving is a calculated risk, and if something were to go wrong, you’d want a backup. Landlords often think they’re financially protected from lawsuits because they already have one chute: landlord insurance. However, sometimes, landlord insurance isn’t…
Top 3 Real Estate Risk Exposures for Property Owners
What are the top risk exposures real estate property owners & managers face? The sources of top liability exposures for residential and commercial real estate include: sidewalks, parking lots and parking structures, pools, playgrounds, and elevators. Slips and falls, drownings, and assaults and other security issues often result from negligent property maintenance, unprotected slip hazards,…
What Does Builder’s Risk Insurance Cover?
Note: Distinguished Programs no longer offers Builder’s Risk or Vacant Building insurance. Explore our other programs for tailored solutions. Builder’s Risk insurance policies are not created equal, with a wide variance in the scope of coverage available in policies on the market today. It’s important to ensure that each of the insureds covered in the…
Program Managers vs. Wholesalers – Key Differences
What are the differences between insurance program managers and wholesalers? Every deal to buy or sell insurance needs a whole cast of characters, each with a particular role to play. They may appear to do similar things, but their job functions differ greatly in practice. In this article, we break down two different roles in the world…
When Do I Need Vacant Building Insurance?
Note: Distinguished Programs no longer offers Builder’s Risk or Vacant Building insurance. Explore our other programs for tailored solutions. Homes become vacant for a number of reasons. A house may be up for sale and the sellers have already moved, or the home is an investment property and it’s taking longer to find tenants. Standard…