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View allWhen disaster strikes isn’t the time to discover limitations in your commercial property insurance, especially if one event has triggered a cascade of further issues. But there is property insurance available to larger business operations that extends to consequential losses without the need to specify what they are: industrial special risks insurance. Here’s how it can plug gaps you might not have even thought about.
Industrial special risks (ISR) insurance provides broad business insurance for medium and large businesses with insured values of typically $5 million and above, by providing protection for a range of risks which includes anything not specifically excluded in the policy. This broad scope and flexibility makes ISR highly adaptable to the needs of businesses with high value assets, supply chain relationships and critical business partnerships.
In terms of property loss, industrial special risks insurance covers
Most commercial property policies contain an optional additional section called Business Interruption or Consequential Loss (depending on the insurer). This section within ISR insurance is designed to ensure that any impacts to the business as a consequence of damage to your property do not cause further financial loss.
Consequential losses that may be claimed include, but are not limited to
The majority of these instances relate to damage to your property, which either negatively impacts your source of turnover or requires additional costs to maintain your revenue stream at pre-damage levels.
As an example, if you were a manufacturing business and suffered fire damage to a key piece of machinery this would negatively impact the amount of units you could produce, leading to a flow-on effect on your turnover. Your industrial special risks cover could either directly replace your lost turnover or pay a proportionate value of alternative parts or outsourcing that stage of the process, to maintain turnover at its pre-damage level.
There are other extensions available to include in an ISR cover, if your business has material exposures elsewhere to your property location. These could include damage sustained by a key customer or supplier, utility provider, or if access to your premises has been prevented, as some common examples.
If you’re interested in finding out more about how industrial special risks cover could provide additional protection to your business, talk to one of our expert brokers.
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