CGL debate is relegated to ins. departments. (commercial general liability)

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

The recent debate over contractual liability coverage contained in a new commercial general liability filing has left agent with a nagging question: what coverage currently exists for insureds? The heated controversy over whether or not the new filing brings defense costs for extra-contractual third-party indemnitees within limits has shined a bright light on the question of whether such insureds in fact now have coverage, or merely the illusion of it.

"Carriers have told us, |We provide coverage, but we do so as a business practice, not because we have an obligation,'" noted John Pottridge, vice president of government and industry affairs with the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, Alexandria, Va. "That is key," he said, "because if...

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