Commercial Property Insurance

NEW HAMPSHIRE | (603) 225-6611

We provide commercial property insurance for NH businesses. As an independent agency, we protect your property while also protecting your bottom line – by making sure you aren’t paying for more coverage than you need.

Generally Speaking…

Commercial property insurance can cover anything that you consider a “physical asset”. Is it an item purchased for business purposes? Would loss or damage result in a financial burden to your company? If so, you should consider insuring it on a commercial property policy.

Covers Loss or Damage to…

Commercial property insurance covers buildings, the contents of a building, equipment, and other “add-ons” that carry monetary value to your business. This could include stock, furniture, computers, records, signs, supplies, and even outdoor property detached from a building.

Covers Loss or Damage as a Result of…

Commercial property coverage is typically triggered by loss or damage due to fire, windstorm, hail, lightening strike, explosion, vandalism, civil commotion or riot, and vehicle/aircraft damage.
Most of these property policies are written using an “all risk” form with standard exclusions that automatically restrict coverage for certain types of loss. Common exclusions include damage from floods or earthquakes.

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Learn about Inland Marine Insurance and how you can use it to fill coverage gaps, here.

Additional Coverage

There is a standard industry form that most carriers use as the foundation to a commercial property insurance policy. It is usually modified by the carrier into their own unqiue product, by adding exclusions or enhancement coverages. The standard policy covers buildings, business personal property, and personal property of others, subject to the policy limits. It can include additional coverage and extensions including:

Debris Removal

Pays for the expense to remove debris of Covered Property caused by a covered loss.

Valuable Papers and Records

Allows you to extend the insurance that applies to Business Personal Property to the cost associated with replacing or restoring lost information from lost or damaged valuable papers and records.

Property Off-premises

Business personal property coverage only applies to property at the locations listed on the policy. This extends limited property coverage to property off premises as long as the property is:
Temporarily at a location you do not own, lease or operate
In storage at a location you lease, or
At any fair, trade show or exhibition

To have coverage for business property items that don’t meet the above criteria, or to increase the amount of coverage for off premises items beyond the extension limit, an Inland Marine policy would likely be required.

Outdoor Property

Extends coverage for a covered loss to your outdoor fences, radio/tv antennas, signs (unless attached to building) , trees, shrubs and plants (unless they are part of “stock”).

Non-Owned Detached Trailers

extend the insurance that applies to Your Business Personal Property to apply to loss or damage to trailers that you do not own, provided that: The trailer is used in your business; (b) The trailer is in your care, custody or control at the premises described in the Declarations; and (c) You have a contractual responsibility to pay for loss or dam- age to the trailer

Electronic Data

Computers and peripheral devices like printers and monitors qualify as “covered property” under the ISO commercial property policy. These items are “machinery and equipment” so they are considered business personal property.

Electronic data is not included as covered property, but a limited amount of coverage is added on later in the form. This provides coverage for electronic data, information, facts or computer programs stored as or on, created or used on, or transmitted to or from computer software. Coverage pays for the cost to replace or restore electronic data which has been damaged by a covered cause of loss. Should the data be beyond repair, the loss is valued at the cost to replace the device that the electronic data was stored on.

Personal Effects and Property Of Others

Extends business personal property coverage to personal property owned by your officers or your employees, as well as personal property of others that is in your care custody and control. The limit applied to this extension is usually significantly lower than the overall business personal property limit of the policy. This extension does not apply to loss or damage by theft.

Preservation Of Property

Coverage that pays for direct physical loss or damage to property that is being moved or while temporarily stored at another location in order to preserve it from loss or damage by a Covered Cause of Loss. Only loss or damage that occurs to the moved property within the first 30 days of the required move, is covered

Pollutant Clean Up And Removal

Pays for the expense to extract “pollutants” from land or water at the insured premises if the dispersal, release or escape of the “pollutants” is caused by or results from a Covered Cause of Loss.