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Commercial Lines (CL) Courses

Anyone pursuing the AILP or AILP/CL designation must complete these courses. Each course has a multiple-choice exam at the end of the day, centered on the material presented that day.


🔷COVERAGE COURSES: CL

AILP Coverage: commercial Auto

  • Eligibility vs. personal lines for individually owned business vehicles
  • Declaration page importance of Item 2: covered autos section
  • Importance of symbols to create a covered auto definition
  • Liability insuring agreement, insured definition and exclusions
  • Physical damage insuring agreement and exclusions
  • Important BAP endorsements, such as additional insured and amendatory endorsements, etc.

AILP Coverage: Commercial General Liability

  • Sources of liability
  • Occurrence vs. claims made
  • Who is the insured, or not?
  • Mechanics of aggregate limits
  • An insuring agreement, territory and known occurrences
  • Exclusions such as contractual, pollution, auto, property damage, your work and product
  • An insuring agreement, personal and advertising injury definition, and the need for separate cyber and discrimination
  • Coverage C medical payments insuring agreement and restrictions

AILP Coverage: workers' compensation

  • Independent contractor vs. employee
  • 3A vs. 3C vs. Limited Other States Endorsements
  • Part I Benefits and what it doesn't pay
  • Part II Employer's Liability and third-party action over dual capacity, consequential loss and exclusions
  • Important endorsements such as USLHW, maritime, voluntary compensation, and waiver of our right to recover, and when we qualify for them
  • Addressing the leasing situation

AILP Coverage: Commercial Property

  • General issues of valuing property: ACV vs. R/C vs. functional
  • Coinsurance
  • Methods of writing: specific, blanket and value reporting
  • Addressing the Building and Contents Form CP 00 10 – What's building and BPP and what's not
  • Additional coverages
  • Extensions
  • Property conditions of vacancy and loss valuation
  • Cause of Loss Special Form CP 10 30
  • General exclusions, additional exclusions, and limitations of coverage


🔷ISSUES COURSES: CL

AILP Issues: Commercial general Liability Part 1

  • "Who is an insured" issues, such as why the request for CG 20 11 Managers or Lessors of Premises?
  • Contractors', owners', and developers' issues, such as CG 20 33, CG 20 10, and CG 20 38, specified vs. automatic: what's the difference? Why the request for older editions vs. newer editions? What is "arising out of"?
  • AI vs. NI: Is there a difference?
  • Indemnitee vs. AI status
  • Primary and non-contributory or not
  • Limits – How much is enough? Amending the limits, designated project or premises, aggregate limit amendments, products and completed operations redefined, and why
  • Miscellaneous issues such as the statute of limitations vs. statutes of repose, waiver of subrogation provision vs. endorsement, wrap-ups and your client, certificate of insurance issues, and problems

AILP Issues: Commercial general Liability Part 2

  • Exclusions that cause problems, such as damage to property – operations vs. completed operations exclusions; renting property – real or personal and damage to it; improper use of damage to your work exclusion; construction defect or not; pollution exclusion and exceptions; liquor liability and BYOB; auto in the GL; drones and finding coverage (covered or not, depending on endorsements)
  • Exclusionary endorsements to beware of: excluding specifics, amendment, and limitation endorsements that are exclusions in disguise
  • Exclusions remind us to buy other policies, such as EPLI and cyber

AILP Issues: Commercial Property

  • Knowing how to amend property when you need to – additional covered property endorsement for the excluded property; property not covered endorsement to avoid duplication; specific property endorsements for certain property types such as signs, antennas and landscaping; new options for tenants and building items; drones
  • Endorsements affecting loss settlement, such as manufacturers' selling price, margin clause, value reporting form, ordinance or law, debris removal, vacancy change options
  • Adding other interests – loss payable or adding building owner
  • Business interruption insurance (BII) issues – coinsurance; described premises or not; BII period exclusion; ordinance or law consideration; BII form vs. BII in BOP; amending the period of restoration; dependent property consideration; BII and loss to vehicles; drones and BII

AILP Issues: Employment Practices Liability Insurance

  • The five employer moves that practically guarantee a lawsuit
  • Which EPLI setups protect — and which leave clients hanging
  • Sneaky coverage gaps hiding in “claims-made” policies
  • Third-party claims that come out of nowhere
  • Real-world scripts to explain EPLI without the legal jargon


AILP Issues: Cyber 

  • Understanding the exposure: Learn why cyber threats are constantly changing and why coverage forms are struggling to keep up.
  • Real-world risks: Explore how breaches occur, who causes them, and the financial and legal consequences that follow.
  • Policy comparison & marketing: Identify what underwriters look for, from data types stored to breach history, and how to make your insureds more marketable.
  • Coverage breakdown: Dive into first-party and third-party cyber coverage components—from business interruption and data restoration to regulatory penalties and extortion demands.
  • Key definitions & exclusions: Decode policy terms, common exclusions, and carve-backs critical to securing meaningful protection.
  • Claims & conditions: Understand claims-made triggers, hammer clauses, defense costs, application severability and rescission.
  • Emerging issues & trends: Review prominent players, carrier variations in coverage offerings, and valuable resources available to both agents and clients.


AILP Issues: E&O: lEGAL DUTIES, DATA RISKS AND OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

  • Standard of care and the agent's legal duty
  • Data privacy compliance and cyber exposures
  • Binding authority and underwriting guidelines
  • Certificates of insurance and documentation standards
  • Agents Council for Technology best practices for texting and e-delivery
  • Internal controls, disclaimers and staff accountability