Umbrella Liability Insurance – A big difference between property and liability risks is that you can put a value on the property you have at risk, but there is no way to predict the amount of damages you could be required to pay as the result of a catastrophic accident. If, for example, you were found liable in a school bus accident that injured children, the damages could be in the millions of dollars. 

Umbrella Liability—also known as Excess Liability Insurance—provides extra protection for catastrophic events. The primary policies are called “underlying” policies and are specifically listed, along with their limits, on the umbrella policy. Typically, the underlying policies are your primary general liability, auto liability and the employer’s liability section of your workers comp policy. The umbrella coverage starts to pay when a covered loss exhausts the primary policy’s per occurrence limit. 

Most umbrella policies exclude employment practices liability, professional liability, product recall coverage, workers compensation and coverage for asbestos-related claims, pollution, war and terrorism. 

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