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MANUFACTURING & WHOLESALING


Preferred Classes

  • Food & Beverage
  • Home Electronics & Electrical Products
  • Leather Goods
  • Metal Workers
  • Plastic Products
  • Printers
  • Textiles & Fabrics
  • Utilities (excluding liability)

Excluded Classes

  • Animal feed
  • Chemicals, petrochemicals and refineries
  • Nuclear
  • Recycling and waste collection
  • Sawmills
  • Telephone and network service providers (property only)
  • Liability for:
    • aircraft, vehicles & critical vehicle parts
    • computer software
    • machinery with U.S. exposure
    • pharmaceutical & medical
    • safety clothing & protective equipment
    • toys

General Acceptance Criteria

  • Minimum three years in business
  • Minimum premium $5,000
  • Favorable loss history
  • Canadian operations including those with some U.S. and foreign exposures
  • Good risk management practice
  • Sound quality control program
  • Well maintained equipment
  • Adequate fire and theft protection


BUSINESS AND PERSONAL SERVICES


Preferred Classes

  • Accountants
  • Acupuncturists
  • Appraisers
  • Audiologists
  • Auditors
  • Bookkeepers
  • Career advisory services
  • Consultants including:
    • acoustical
    • actuarial
    • dieticians
    • management
    • health & safety
    • nutritionists
  • Convalescent homes
  • Dental laboratories
  • Denturists
  • Diaper, towel & linen services
  • Draperies & rug cleaning
  • Education advisory services
  • Employment agencies
  • Evaluators
  • Funeral homes & related Operations
  • Furniture cleaning
  • Hearing aid service

  • Horticultural/agricultural services & tree removal (excluding spaying)
  • Lawyers
  • Mailing and/or addressing companies
  • Map drawing/draftsmen/blue printers
  • Market research agencies or firms
  • Marriage counselors
  • Municipal risks (excluding liability)
  • Notaries
  • Nursing homes/rest homes (excluding chronic care facilities)
  • Opticians
  • Optometrists
  • Photography studios and related services
  • Small business advisory services
  • Speech therapists
  • Travel agencies
  • Veterinarians including hospital, kennels, pet sitters

Excluded Classes

  • Risks in which the primary operation is:
    • detective and security services, private investigators
    • driving schools, roadside assistance, ambulance services
    • property managers
  • Liability for:
    • risks requiring abuse coverage
    • computer consultants and software developers
    • hospitals, clinics, chronic care facilities
    • medical research and laboratories, radiation/X-ray/lasers clinics or services
    • municipalities

General Acceptance Criteria

  • Minimum three years in business
  • Minimum premium $12,000
  • Risks not eligible for Small Business Solutions
  • Favorable loss history
  • Good risk management: experienced and qualified personnel
  • Canadian operations including those with some U.S. and foreign exposures


LOGISTICS AND WAREHOUSING


Preferred Classes

PROPERTY/CASUALTY

MARINE

  • Truckmen hauling for others
  • Delivery and courier services
  • Farm products warehouse
  • Freight terminal/broker
  • Refrigerated storage lockers
  • Household goods warehouses
  • General merchandise warehouses
  • Transportation terminal
  • Waterfront operations

  • Freight forwarders
  • Freight/load brokers
  • Custom brokers
  • Logistics consultants
  • Delivery services
  • Courier services
  • Truckmen hauling/carriage
  • Warehousing (load/unload)
Coverage above is in respect to:
  • legal liability and E&O for loss or damage to cargo of third parties while it is under stewardship of our Insured and /or the third party carriers they have hired

Excluded Classes

PROPERTY/CASUALTY

MARINE

  • Long haul operations
  • U.S. exposure other than cross-border
  • Waste and garbage
  • Fibre/oils/petrochemical/
    fireworks/explosives
  • Monoline liability

  • Start-up operations (less than 3 years in business)
  • High-target commodities (ie: gold, specie, computer chips)

General Acceptance Criteria

  • Risks not eligible for Small Business Solutions
  • Minimum premium $12,000
  • Minimum three years in business
  • Favorable loss history
  • Good risk management practices: facilities, projects and equipment


CONSTRUCTION AND CONTRACTING
(i) General Contractors & Specialty Contractors


Preferred Classes


General Contractors

  • building contractors
  • highway, street, road paving
  • watermain, sewer, steam main

Specialty Contractors

  • alternative energy contractors
  • antennae installation
  • boiler installation
  • cable installation
  • carpentry/woodworkers
  • ceiling tile installation
  • cement and concrete work
  • cleaning-streets, sewers, and drains
  • conveyor system installation
  • drilling (water, not oil/gas)
  • driveway & parking lot paving contractors
  • duct cleaning services
  • electrical contractors
  • excavation contractors
  • fence works
  • floor covering installation

  • gas fitter
  • glazier operations
  • grading of land
  • heating, ventilation and air conditioner installation
  • home furnishing installation
  • insulation contractors
  • interior decorators
  • irrigation construction
  • machinery installation
  • masons
  • painting contractors (minimal spray painting
  • plastering and lathing including drywall
  • plumbers
  • pre-case beams construction
  • refrigeration equipment installation
  • septic tank installation
  • sheet metal contractors
  • sidewalk contractors
  • sign installation & service
  • steam fitters
  • structural iron or steel erection
  • terrazzo/tile installation

Excluded Classes

  • Operations outside of Canada
  • Risks in which the primary operation is:
    • snow removal
    • blasting
    • spray painting
    • week spraying
    • shoring and underpinning
    • demolition
    • roofing involving hot processes
    • welding and cutting

General Acceptance Criteria

  • Risks not eligible for Small Business Solutions
  • Minimum premium $12,000
  • Minimum three years in business
  • Favorable loss history
  • Good risk management practices: facilities, projects and equipment


CONSTRUCTION AND CONTRACTING
(ii)Total Project Protection


Preferred Classes

Small to medium size ICI
(industrial, commercial, institutional buildings)
  • eg: offices, high-rise residential, schools

EAR (erection all-risks) - small to medium-sized projects

  • eg: machinery installation, power plants, manufacturing plants

Excluded Classes

  • wood frame residential sub-divisions
    • eg: single-family dwellings, townhomes, condominiums
  • projects outside of Canada

Coverages Available

  • Contract Works (Builders Risk)
  • Team Cover professional liability (underwritten by DPIC)
  • Advanced loss of profits
  • Cargo-to-construction
  • Wrap-up liability
  • Contract surety bonding (underwritten by GCNA)
    • bid bonds/tender bond
    • performance bond/final bond
    • supply bond
    • surety's consent/agreement to bond
    • payment bond/labor and material payment bond


AUTOMOBILE
Written along with, and in support of, Property/Casualty business
in the Custom Risk Solutions segments


Manufacturing/ Wholesaling


  • Operations hauling own goods
  • Predominantly short-haul radius (within 100 mile radius)
  • Less than 50 power units
  • Minimum three year continuous experience of operating the fleet
  • Limited U.S. exposure-less than 30% of annual mileage and radius within 180 miles of the border
  • Must have an in-force Loss Control Program


Subject to the following exclusions:

  • hauling hazardous commodities or livestock
  • drivers under 25 years of age operation units > 4500 kgs
  • owner/operators not operating under an exclusive contract to the Insured
  • operations where long-haul radius (greater than 100 miles) exceeds 20% of total trips
  • hauling goods for others with long-haul and/or U.S. exposure

Business & Personal Services

  • Fleet consisting of light commercial & private passenger units
  • Fleet managed, controlled by insured
  • Establish driver controls in place
  • All vehicles registered to Insured's company name
  • Minimum three years continuous experience


Subject to the following exclusions:

  • Passenger carrying vehicles, buses, taxis
  • express delivery services, couriers
  • security, alarm response operations
  • units domiciled and operated outside of CDA
  • recreational units: snowmobiles, ATV, motorcycles for personal use
  • high U.S. exposure

Logistics & Warehousing

  • Bridge/tunnel/highway
    owner & ops
  • Short haul truckmen
  • Delivery services
  • Grain elevators/terminals
  • Tobacco warehouses
  • Farm product warehouses
  • Refrigerated storage lockers
  • Household goods warehouse
  • Waterfront operations
  • Bus & truck maintenance garages
  • Wharves, pier & dock operations


Subject to the following exclusions:

  • Long haul operations
  • U.S. exposure other than cross-border
  • Bus/taxi/passenger carrying exposures
  • Courier services
  • Air terminal/hangar exposures
  • Boat repairs
  • Water transportation services
  • Armored cars

Construction & Contracting

  • Artisans
  • Home and industrial construction
  • General contractors
  • Road contractors
  • Minimum three years continuous experience


Subject to the following exclusions:

  • high rise/bridge construction
  • drilling/logging/oil and gas contractors
  • demolition/scrap metal contractors
  • blasting contractors

New Business Submission Requirements

  • full description of use/radius of the vehicles, including destination cities
  • complete & updated vehicle list, detailing any attached machinery and its value
  • up-to-date and complete drivers list
  • full details and breakdown of commodities carried
  • loss information on incumbent company's letterhead for previous three(3) years experience minimum

  • details of an in-force loss control program and commentary around driver controls in place
  • heavy vehicles hauling goods - a copy of carrier's CVOR
  • heavy units operation in the U.S. - prior year's fuel tax summary
  • may be subject to an R&SA Loss Control Consultant visiting premises Insured


SPECIALIZED PRODUCT OFFERINGS ON
A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRY SEGMENTS



Outline


  • Clients requiring non-traditional products, distribution and services
  • Risk management property
    • risk management approach
    • full-time risk manager
    • $25,000 minimum premium
  • Specialty Cover
Product Offerings
Monoline & Non-CRS
Mfg/
Wholesale
B&P Services
Logistics
Contracting/ Const
EBI (B&M)
X
X
X
X
X
 Marine
X
X
X
X
X
Misc. E&O
X
X
X
X
X (through DPIC)
 Non-Profit D&O
X
 
X
 
 
 Excess/ Umbrella
X
X
X
X
X
 REMi(equipment maintenance insurance)
X
X
X
X
X
Contract Surety (through GCNA) 
 
 
 
 
X
Risk Managed Property 
X
X
X
X
X
General Acceptance Criteria
  • In support of CRS target segments
  • Can be written on a mono-line basis and on non-CRS segments
 
 
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