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Insurance Considerations When Expanding Your Business to a New Location

Mark Jackson Insurance Agency

MARCH 19, 2025

From property protection to liability coverage, ensuring your business insurance policies align with your expansion is critical. Your current insurance policies may not automatically extend to the new site, and additional coverage may be required. If customers, vendors, or visitors will be on-site, this policy is essential.

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Workers Compensation Liability Property Damage Inland Marine Insurance

A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Commercial Property Insurance

Protect Commercial Insurance

APRIL 11, 2025

This type of policy covers a wide array of potential hazards, including fire, theft, vandalism, and certain natural disasters. The policies are often tailored to meet the specific needs of different industries, whether you own a quaint bakery on the high street or a bustling tech startup in the middle of a business district.

Commercial Property

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Can Both the Contractor and Property Owner Be Named Insureds on a Builder’s Risk Policy?

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

One common question is whether the contractor and the property owner can be named insureds on the same Builder’s Risk policy. The answer lies in both parties’ financial interest in the property and how that impacts the insurance policy’s structure. Property owners may also choose to add Premises Liability coverage to the policy.

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Insurance for Apartment Building Owners: Protecting Your Client’s Investments With the Right Coverage

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MARCH 20, 2025

Not only are they insured in the event of a covered risk, but they can also sleep well at night knowing they have a policy limit that is high enough to cover whatever gets thrown their way. Crime insurance : Protects against financial losses caused by theft, burglary, or employee dishonesty, covering stolen money, securities, or property.

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Building Protection Damage Liability

Insuring Collectibles in New York

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Whats Covered The policy covers a wide range of risks for direct physical damage, including fire and theft, under an all-risk policy structure with broad coverage. It covers fine art, sports cards, handbags, and other collections, up to $125 million on a single risk as the primary or excess layer or on a quota-share basis.

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Builder’s Risk Insurance in Tennessee: A Broker’s Guide

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Job sites that are under construction are prone to things like fire, theft, and vandalism. Different Builder’s Risk insurance policies vary from one insurance carrier to another.  Theft : Covers the cost of replacing covered items that were stolen from the job site. Who Should be Named in a Builder’s Risk Policy?

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Does Homeowners Insurance Cover Collectibles?

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JULY 22, 2024

Theft, damage during transport, or accidental breakage can devastate a collection that has taken years to assemble. Unfortunately, these unique risks are rarely appropriately covered by standard homeowner insurance policies. For most, this will mean a collectibles policy.

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Builder’s Risk Insurance in Michigan: Online Quotes, Coverages, and Costs

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Under-construction buildings can be prone to fire, vandalism, and theft, which can end up costing their backers and owners millions. However, a general rule of thumb for Builder’s Risk is to expect a policy to cost anywhere from 1-5% of the total project cost. Who Needs to be Insured by a Builder’s Risk Policy?

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What are the most important questions to ask when choosing business insurance?

Protect Commercial Insurance

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Introduction When it comes to safeguarding your business, selecting the right insurance policy is crucial. It can be quite a daunting task with so many options out there, and understanding each policy’s intricacies is essential for your peace of mind and financial wellbeing. Every industry comes with its own set of risks.

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Does Builder’s Risk Coverage Differ for Residential vs. Commercial Construction Projects?

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

While Builder’s Risk policies for both types of projects offer similar coverage, such as insuring for damage to the structure from fire, theft, and other covered perils, there are important distinctions between residential and commercial coverage. We offer 3-, 6-, 9-, or 12-month policies, with extensions available upon review.

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Rare Toy Insurance: A Guide for Collectors and Brokers

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AUGUST 5, 2024

However, if your clients have been lucky enough to come across a rare Illustrator Pikachu Card ( worth over $550,000 ) or a vintage Boba Fett toy ( worth over $500,000 ), they’re going to need an insurance policy that properly covers them. This means a specialized collectibles policy. How Do You Insure a Toy Collection?

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The Role of Appraisals in Fine Art Insurance

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JULY 29, 2024

A client’s fine art collection may represent their treasured possessions or important investments and requires specialized insurance to protect against losses caused by water, fire, vandalism, theft, transit, and natural disasters. Types of Valuations Insurance policies can be written on an agreed value/scheduled or blanket basis.

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Protecting Fine Art, Collectibles in California

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Unlike competitors retreating from the market due to aggregation risks, our Fine Art and Collectibles insurance program brings fresh capacity and a willingness to underwrite policies tailored to Californias unique challenges. Many carriers encourage clients to insure their collections with specific Fine Art and Collectibles policies.

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Builder’s Risk Insurance Declinations: An Interview With Susan DeCarlo

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We can consider weather related claims, but claims of theft, vandalism, and fire, for example, would be an automatic decline. If we are comfortable with our exposure, we may consider increasing the AOP deductible and the theft deductible , depending on the underwriting analysis. And in those cases, it would be a declination.

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Public Art Insurance: Safeguarding Publicly Owned Art and Collectibles

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Public art insurance is a specialized insurance policy designed to provide coverage to all artwork or valuable collectibles owned or loaned to a public institution.  For instance, a city could take out a public art insurance policy that would cover any artwork, historical artifacts, or even outdoor sculptures owned by that city.

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Builder’s Risk Insurance in Alabama: A Broker’s Guide

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Who Needs to be Insured by a Builder’s Risk Policy in Alabama? For a Builder’s Risk policy anywhere in the United States, it’s important everyone with a financial stake in the project be named in the policy. Cost of the project : The larger the project’s TIV, the more expensive a policy will be.  

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High-Capacity Limits Address Collections of Museums, Corporate Clients, and High-Net-Worth Individuals

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JANUARY 7, 2025

The Fine Art & Collectibles program can cover items for a loss caused by a wide range of events and perils, such as accidental breakage and damage, including during transit; water damage; theft, vandalism and malicious mischief; fire and smoke; and natural disasters.

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Do You Need Boat Insurance?

Maritime Insurance International

MARCH 3, 2020

A boat insurance policy could offer you coverage for the following: Property Damage. Loss of your boat to theft, fire, or serious weather events while it’s moored in a marina or in storage can be protected. Does My Homeowner’s Policy Cover My Boat? Bodily Injury. Towing Accidents. Marina & Storage.

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