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General liability

The Hanover’s suite of general liability broadening coverage offerings is designed to help fully protect your commercial package property (CPP) and monoline general liability clients against costly damage, injury and suits brought against them.

Our general liability broadening coverage is issued as a suite of coverages. When you include general liability broadening coverage as a part of your client’s insurance solution, the suite of broadening coverage will always consist of two endorsements:

  • Base broadening endorsement – Includes 13 coverages and enhancements common across all industries, such as knowledge of occurrence, liberalization clause and unintentional failure to notify.
  • Enhancement endorsement – Industry-specific or general enhancement endorsement that further enhances the base broadening endorsement to meet challenging exposures.

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Suite of general liability broadening coverages

1. General enhancement endorsement - Further enhances base coverages to meet challenging exposures

OR

2. Industry-specific endorsement - enhances base coverages to meet common industry coverage concerns

3. Base commercial general liability broadening endorsement - includes 13 coverages common across industries

ISO 2012 commercial general liability coverage forms

Explore our general liability broadening endorsement, as well as our general and industry-specific enhancement options, to select the level of coverage that aligns with your client’s business needs.

Commercial general liability broadening endorsement

CGL broadening endorsement

421-2915

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured by contract, agreement or permit

Included

Additional insured — primary and non-contributory

Included

Blanket waiver of subrogation

Included

Bodily injury redefined

Included

Broad form property damage — borrowed equipment, customers goods and use of elevators

Included

Knowledge of occurrence

Included

Liberalization clause

Included

Medical payments — increased reporting period

Included

Newly acquired or formed organizations — covered until end of policy period

Included

Non-owned watercraft

51 feet

Supplementary payments increased limits
– Bail bonds
– Loss of earnings per day

$2,500
$1,000

Unintentional failure to disclose hazards

Included

Unintentional failure to notify

Included

Our general or industry specific enhancements can be added to the based broadening option to enhance coverage, including:

Commercial general liability enhancement endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement

421-2916

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Product recall expense
– Occurrence
– Aggregate
– Deductible


$25,000
$50,000
$500

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Amateur sports general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement –
amateur sports

421-2917

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — sponsors

Included

Additional insured — subcontractor — aerobic instructors, massage therapists, and personal trainers

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Contractors general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement – contractors

421-2918

Coverage

Limits

Aggregate limit per project

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Contractual liability — railroads

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Educational institutions commercial general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement –
educational institutions

421-2925

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Additional insured — board members, trustees, student teachers, safety patrol and approved groups

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Aircraft, auto or watercraft amendments

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Broadcasting and publication — personal and advertising injury

Included

Clinic or hospital exclusion

Included

Medical payments for students exclusion

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Personal injury — televised or videotaped publication

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protective systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Who is an insured extension —
co-employees and volunteer workers

Included

Financial institutions general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement –
financial institutions

421-5007

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — controlling interest

Included

Additional insured — employee and volunteer worker broadened bodily injury coverage

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Aircraft – non-owned, hired, chartered or loaned with paid crew

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMT’s and paramedics)

Included

Liability for conduct of unnamed joint ventures, partnerships or limited liability companies

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protective systems damage limit

$1,000,000

 Repossessed watercraft

Included
Supplementary payments — additional limits $1,000
Supplementary payments increased limits — bail bonds $5,000
Health and fitness general liability broadening endorsement
 

CGL enhancement endorsement –
health and fitness

421-2920

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — club or facility members

Included

Additional insured — subcontractor —aerobic instructors, massage therapists, and personal trainers

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage Limit

$1,000,000

Healthcare general liability broadening endorsement
 

CGL enhancement endorsement –
healthcare

421-2919

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Innocent party defense coverage for employees

$25,000

Medical director as insured

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — abuse of process

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Extended property damage for home health care
– Home health care property damage aggregate limit
– Home health care property damage each occurrence limit
– Home health care property damage deductible


$50,000

$25,000

$500

Public relations expenses coverage
– Public relations expenses each incident limit
– Public relations expenses aggregate limit

$10,000

$10,000

Theft of clients' property
– Clients' property aggregate limit
– Clients' property each occurrence limit

$50,000
$25,000

Human services general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement –
human services

421-2921

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Innocent party defense coverage for employees

$25,000

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Product recall expense
– Occurrence
– Aggregate
– Deductible

$25,000
$50,000
$500

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit
– Damage caused by “Your client” limit

$1,000,000


$30,000

Manufactured housing general liability broadening endorsement
 

CGL enhancement endorsement –
manufactured housing

421-2922

Coverage

Limits

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs, paramedics)

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Real estate general liability broadening endorsement
 

CGL enhancement endorsement –
real estate

421-2924

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Tenants-in-common as named insured

Included

Religious institutions general liability broadening endorsement

CGL enhancement endorsement –
religious institutions

421-2923

Coverage

Limits

Accidental death benefit

$5,000

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Amendment to who is an insured — trustees, clergy and members of the board of governors

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Extended property damage

Included

Innocent party defense coverage for employees

$25,000

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Product recall expense
– Occurrence
– Aggregate
– Deductible

$25,000
$50,000
$500

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

Wage loss

$5,000

Technology general liability broadening endorsement

CGL Enhancement Endorsement –
Technology

421-2926

Coverage

Limits

Additional insured — broad form vendors

Included

Additional insured — employee and volunteer worker broadened bodily injury coverage

Included

Aggregate limit per location

Included

Aircraft — non-owned hired, chartered or loaned with paid crew

Included

Alienated premises

Included

Broad form named insured

Included

Damage to your product

$50,000

Extended property damage

Included

Incidental malpractice (employed nurses, EMTs and paramedics)

Included

Mobile equipment redefined

Included

Personal injury — broad form

Included

Product recall expense
– Occurrence
– Aggregate
– Deductible

$25,000
$50,000
$500

Property damage legal liability
– Broad form
– Fire, lightning, explosion, smoke and leakage from fire protection systems damage limit

$1,000,000

 

Please note: The Hanover’s general liability coverage does not automatically include a professional services exclusion.

 

Coverage description

Our general liability broadening coverage is issued as a suite of coverages. When you include general liability broadening coverage as a part of your client’s insurance solution, the suite of broadening coverage will always consist of two endorsements:

  • Base broadening endorsement – Includes 13 coverages and enhancements common across all industries, such as knowledge of occurrence, liberalization clause and unintentional failure to notify.
  • Enhancement endorsement – Industry-specific or general enhancement endorsement that further enhances the base broadening endorsement to meet challenging exposures.

Here's how this works:

suite of general liability broadening coverages
Image transcript

Suite of general liability broadening coverages

1. General enhancement endorsement - Further enhances base coverages to meet challenging exposures

OR

2. Industry-specific endorsement - enhances base coverages to meet common industry coverage concerns

3. Base commercial general liability broadening endorsement - includes 13 coverages common across industries

ISO 2012 commercial general liability coverage forms