Businessowners — Books as Valuable Papers?

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One of our businessowners insureds recently filed a claim for valuable papers and records coverage that was subsequently denied by the insurer. The insured's business, a financial planning firm, was covered under a businessowners special form (BP 00 02 12 99) and suffered a total fire loss to both structure and contents. The limit of coverage for the building and contents has been reached.

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