ISO refutes agent attack on CGL filing. (Insurance Services Office; John Pottridge; commercial general liability forms)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, March, 1992 by Mulcahy, Colleen

The Insurance Services Office is disputing agent arguments that its recent commercial general liability form filing restricts coverage in suits involving third party contractors not named as additional insureds. Indeed, the revised form extends coverage where none currently exists, explained Domenick Yezzi, assistant vice president at New York-based ISO.

"[Some agents] believe that coverage was implicit in the old form. (See NU, Feb. 17, 1992.) But implicit means it's not stated in the contract. I agree. It's not in the old contract," he said. In fact, the existing policy form provides no coverage beyond bodily injury and property damage for obligations insureds may incur as the result of third parties not named in the insurance contract, he noted....

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