Setting aside the
umbrella policy, let's look at a few items in the excess policy to find out why it's different.
In more specific terms, here's how an
umbrella policy works: when an insured is liable to someone, the insured's primary insurance policies pay up to their limits and any additional amount is paid by the
umbrella policy.
Where a plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment on his claim that the defendant insurance company was bound to provide uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage under an
umbrella policy issued to his employer, that request was properly denied based on the employer's rejection of uninsured motorist coverage.
After Cantor prepared a lawsuit and threatened bad faith, the insurer paid its policy limits on its $250/$500 bodily injury liability coverage, and on a $1 million
umbrella policy, exhausting the coverage for the incident.
An
umbrella policy can protect consumers from losses that may not be covered by their other insurance policy.
The Umbrella Policies provide that Hartford will indemnify the City "for ultimate net loss in excess of the underlying limit or the [SIR], whichever is the greater...." The Umbrella Policies define "underlying limit" as the "limits of liability of the underlying insurance...." Each
Umbrella Policy's Schedule of Underlying Policies lists an Excess Policy and states that the Excess Policy's limit of liability is $500,000 in excess of the $500,000 SIR.
This is a historic decision." The new
umbrella policy 'Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan' (PM-AASHA) was approved in the Cabinet meeting, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held here.
and Karl Kunstman, Ixthus' principal (collectively, Ixthus) under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy and a commercial
umbrella policy. The sole question on appeal is whether the policies' knowing violation exclusion applies and relieves West Bend of its duty to defend Ixthus in connection with a trademark/trade dress infringement case Abbott Laboratories and two of its affiliates (collectively, Abbott) filed against Ixthus in federal court in New York.
If necessary, the
umbrella policy would pay obligations beyond the upper limits of auto or homeowner's liability coverage.
ACE declined coverage under Comforce's
umbrella policy, in part, on the grounds that the claims were excluded from coverage.