Commercial General Liability Endorsements – Archived Article

October, 2003

Modifying the CGL Coverage Form

Summary: Insurance Services Office (ISO) has a large number of standard endorsements to modify the commercial general liability (CGL) coverage forms in many significant ways; the endorsements help tailor the policy to suit underwriting requirements or to more closely meet the coverage needs of insureds in a wide variety of circumstances. The titles of most of these endorsements indicate their intent. And, the numbering of the endorsements is also instructive. For example, a general liability endorsement beginning with the numbers 20 means an additional insured endorsement; an endorsement with the beginning numbers 21 means an exclusion; 22 means special provisions for certain type of risks; and 99 is used for miscellaneous endorsements.

The listing below is for quick reference only and has only limited descriptions; some of these endorsements are described in more detail in the Public Liability section of the Casualty & Surety volume, page B.1; see CGL Endorsements.

Deductible

The CGL coverage forms have no deductible provision. Endorsement CG 03 00 01 96 is used to add a deductible to the CGL forms. The endorsement may be adapted to apply either per claim or per occurrence, and to either bodily injury or property damage or both coverages combined.

CG 03 00—Deductible Liability Insurance (applicable to the CGL coverage part and the products/completed operations coverage part)

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