Current through Reg. 50, No. 187; September 24, 2024
Marine and/or transportation policies may cover under the
following conditions:
(1) Imports.
(a) Imports may be covered wherever the
property may be and without restrictions as to time, provided the coverage of
the issuing companies includes hazards of transportation.
(b) An import, as a proper subject, of marine
or transportation insurance, shall be deemed to maintain its character as such
so long as the property remains segregated in such a way that it can be
identified and has not become incorporated and mixed with the general mass of
property in the United States, and shall be deemed to have been completed when
such property has been:
1. Sold and delivered
by the importer, factor or consignee; or
2. Removed from place of storage and placed
on sale as part of importer's stock in trade at a point of sale distribution;
or
3. Delivered for manufacture,
processing or change in form to premises of the importer or of another used for
any such purposes.
(2) Exports.
(a) Exports may be covered wherever the
property may be without restriction as to time, provided the coverage of the
issuing companies includes hazards of transportation.
(b) An export, as a proper subject of marine
or transportation insurance, shall be deemed to acquire its character as such
when designated or while being prepared for export and retain that character
unless diverted for domestic trade, and when so diverted, the provisions of
this rule respecting domestic shipments shall apply, provided, however, that
this provision shall not apply to long established methods of insuring certain
commodities, for example, cotton.
(3) Domestic shipments.
(a) Domestic shipments on consignment,
(provided the coverage of the issuing companies includes hazards of
transportation) for sale or distribution, exhibit, or trial, or approval or
auction, while in transit, while in the custody of others and while being
returned, provided that in no event shall the policy cover on premises owned,
leased or operated by the consignor.
(b) Domestic shipments not on consignment,
provided the coverage of the issuing companies includes hazards of
transportation, beginning and ending within the United States, provided that
such shipments shall not be covered at manufacturing premises nor after arrival
at premises owned, leased or operated by Assured or
purchaser.
(4) Bridges,
tunnels and other instrumentalities. Bridges, tunnels and other
instrumentalities of transportation and communication (excluding buildings,
their improvements and betterments, furniture and furnishings, fixed contents
and supplies held in storage) includes:
(a)
Bridges, tunnels, other similar instrumentalities, including auxiliary
facilities and equipment attendant thereto.
(b) Piers, wharves, docks, slips, dry docks
and marine railways.
(c) Pipelines,
including on-line propulsion, regulating and other equipment appurtenant to
such pipelines, but excluding all property at manufacturing, producing,
refining, converting, treating or conditioning plants.
(d) Power transmission and Telephone and
Telegraph lines, excluding all property at generating, converting or
transforming stations, substations and exchanges.
(e) Radio and Television Communication
Equipment in use as such including towers and antennae with auxiliary
equipment, and appurtenant electrical operating and control
apparatus.
(f) Outdoor cranes,
loading bridges and similar equipment used to load, unload and
transport.
(5) Personal
property floater risks. Personal property floater risks covering individuals
and/or generally include:
(a) Personal Effects
Floater Policies.
(b) The Personal
Property Floater.
(c) Government
Service Floaters.
(d) Personal Fur
Floaters.
(e) Personal Jewelry
Floaters.
(f) Wedding Present
Floaters for not exceeding ninety (90) days after the day of the
wedding.
(g) Silverware
Floaters.
(h) Fine Arts Floaters
covering paintings, etchings, pictures, tapestries, art glass windows, and
other bona fide works of art of rarity, historical value or artistic
merit.
(i) Stamp and Coin
Floaters.
(j) Musical Instrument
Floaters. Radios, televisions, record players and combinations thereof are not
deemed musical instruments.
(k)
Mobile Articles, Machinery and Equipment Floaters (excluding motor vehicles
designed for highway use and auto homes, trailers and semi-trailers except when
hauled by tractors not designed for highway use) covering identified property
of a mobile or floating nature pertaining to or usual to a household. Such
policies shall not cover furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from
premises where such property is usually kept.
(l) Installment Sales and Leased Property
Policies covering property pertaining to a household and sold under conditional
contract of sale, partial payment contract or installment sales contract or
leased, but excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use. Such policies
must cover in transit but shall not extend beyond the termination of the
seller's or lessor's interest.
(6) Commercial Property Floater Risks.
Commercial property floater risks covering property pertaining to a business,
profession or occupation include:
(a) Radium
Floaters.
(b) Physicians' and
Surgeons' Instrument Floaters. Such policies may include coverage of such
furniture, fixtures and tenant Assured's interest in such improvements and
betterments of buildings as are located in that portion of the premises
occupied by the Assured in the practice of his profession.
(c) Pattern and Die Floaters.
(d) Theatrical Floaters, excluding buildings
and their improvements and betterments, and furniture and fixtures that do not
travel about with theatrical troupes.
(e) Film Floaters, including builders' risk
during the production and coverage on completed negatives and positives and
sound records.
(f) Salesmen's
Samples Floaters.
(g) Exhibition
Policies on property while on exhibition and in transit to or from such
exhibitions.
(h) Builders Risks
and/or Installation Risks covering interest of owner, seller or contractor,
against loss or damage to machinery, equipment, building materials or supplies,
being used with and during the course of installation, testing, building,
renovating or repairing. Such policies may cover at points or places where work
is being performed, while in transit and during temporary storage or deposit,
of property designated for and awaiting specific installation, building,
renovating or repairing. Such coverage shall be limited to Builders' Risks or
Installation Risks where perils in addition to Fire and Extended Coverage are
to be insured. If written for account of owner, the coverage shall cease upon
completion and acceptance thereof; or if written for account of a seller or
contractor the coverage shall terminate when the interest of the seller or
contractor ceases.
(i) Mobile
Articles, Machinery and Equipment Floaters (excluding motor vehicles designated
for highway use and auto homes, trailers and semi-trailers except when hauled
by tractors not designed for highway use and snow plows constructed exclusively
for highway use), covering identified property of a mobile or floating nature,
not on sale or consignment, or in course of manufacture, which has come into
custody or control of parties who intend to use such property for the purpose
for which it was manufactured or created. Such policies shall not cover
furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from premises where such
property is usually kept.
(j)
Property in transit to or from and in the custody of bailees (not owned,
controlled or operated by the bailor). Such policies shall not cover bailee's
property at his premises.
(k)
Installment Sales and Leased Property. Policies covering property sold under
conditional contract of sale, partial payment contract, installment sales
contract, or leased but excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use. Such
policies must cover in transit but shall not extend beyond the termination of
the seller's or lessor's interest. This section is not intended to include
machinery and equipment under certain "lease-back" contracts.
(l) Garment Contractors Floaters.
(m) Furriers or Fur Storer's Customer's
Policies (i.e., policies under which certificates or receipts are issued by
furriers or fur storers) covering specified articles the property of
customers.
(n) Accounts Receivable
Policies, Valuable Papers and Records Policies.
(o) Floor Plan Policies, covering property
for sale while in possession of dealers under a Floor Plan or any similar plan
under which the dealer borrows money from a bank or lending institution with
which to pay the manufacturer, provided:
1.
Such merchandise is specifically identifiable as encumbered to the bank or
lending institution.
2. The
dealer's right to sell or otherwise dispose of such merchandise is conditioned
upon its being released from encumbrance by the bank or lending
institution.
3. That such policies
cover in transit and do not extend beyond the termination of the dealer's
interest.
Provided, however, that such policies shall not cover
automobiles or motor vehicles; merchandise for which the dealer's collateral is
the stock or inventory as distinguished from merchandise specifically
identifiable as encumbered to the lending
institution.
(p)
Sign and Street Clock Policies, including neon signs, automatic or mechanical
signs, street clocks, which are used for such.
(q) Fine Arts Policies covering paintings,
etchings, pictures, tapestries, art glass windows, and other bona fide works of
art of rarity, historical value or artistic merit, for account of museums,
galleries, universities, businesses, municipalities and other similar
interests.
(r) Policies covering
personal property which, when sold to the ultimate purchaser, may be covered
specifically, by the owner, under Inland Marine Policies including:
1. Musical Instrument Dealers Policies,
covering property consisting principally of musical instruments and their
accessories. Radios, televisions, record players and combinations thereof are
not deemed musical instruments.
2.
Camera Dealers Policies, covering property consisting principally of cameras
and their accessories.
3. Furrier's
Dealers Policies, covering property consisting principally of furs and fur
garments.
4. Equipment Dealers
Policies, covering mobile equipment consisting of binders, reapers, tractors,
harvesters, harrows, tedders, and other similar agricultural equipment and
accessories therefor; construction equipment consisting of bulldozers, road
scrapers, tractors, compressors, pneumatic tools and similar equipment and
accessories therefor, but excluding motor vehicles designed for highway
use.
5. Stamp and Coin Dealers
covering property of philatelic and numismatic nature.
6. Jewelers' Block Policies.
7. Fine Arts Dealers.
Such policies may include coverage of money in locked safes
or vaults on the Assured's premises. Such policies also may include coverage of
furniture, fixtures, tools, machinery, patterns, molds, dies and tenant
insureds interest in improvements of buildings.
(s) Wool Growers Floaters.
(t) Domestic Bulk Liquids Policies, covering
tanks and domestic bulk liquids stored therein.
(u) Difference in Conditions Coverage
excluding fire and extended coverage perils.
(v) Electronic Data Processing
Policies.
Rulemaking Authority 624.308(1), 624.607(3) FS. Law
Implemented 624.307(1), 624.607 FS.
New 4-17-80, Formerly 4-48.03, 4-48.003,
4-167.022.