Coverage Review Commercial Property Management

Office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use portfolios generate the most complex insurance obligations in this business. Tenant build-outs run continuously, leases impose their own insurance requirements, and New York Labor Law extends absolute liability to owners, contractors, and their agents. A commercial management program that was correct three years ago is usually out of step with the leases signed since.

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01

Errors and omissions

Whether your errors and omissions form responds to the specific services in your management agreements, including construction management if you perform it

02

Additional insured status

Additional insured status on vendor and contractor policies whether it exists, whether it is primary and non-contributory, and whether the endorsement form is the one your lease actually requires

03

Scaffold law exposure

Scaffold law exposure across the portfolio and whether the contractual risk transfer holds up under Labor Law sections 240 and 241

04

Lease-driven requirements

Lease-driven insurance requirements and whether your program satisfies what your tenants and lenders are entitled to demand

05

Environmental and pollution

Environmental and pollution exposure, which owners frequently assume is covered somewhere and frequently is not

06

Equipment breakdown & ordinance or law

Equipment breakdown and ordinance or law, the two lines most often missing on older commercial stock

WHAT TO SEND

Three documents get most of the way there.

Three documents get most of the way there: your management agreements, your current declarations pages, and your vendor certificate log. If you have a claim history or a renewal quote in hand, send those too. If you have none of it organized, send what you have assembling it is part of the work.

WHAT YOU GET BACK

A written summary of what does not line up.

A written summary of where the program does not line up with what you have agreed to carry, ranked by what would actually hurt. Not a quote sheet. If the conclusion is that your current program is sound, that is what the summary will say, and there is no obligation attached to it.