Month: May 2016

In our experience, the concept of co-insurance in relation to business interruption is one of the least understood and most feared topics by all parties involved.  It could be the setting of appropriate policy limits for business interruption, determining co-insurance compliance, or insured’s feeling unfairly penalized when co-insurance requirements are applied following a claim.

One of the most contentious issues in any business interruption matter is often the treatment of payroll. 

(Gross Profit vs. Gross Earnings vs. Hybrid Policies) Traditionally, business interruption insurance policies have fallen under one of two styles, Gross Earnings or Gross Profits.  In recent years the consistency in policy styles has been eroding and new hybrid style forms are starting to become more prevalent. 

Not all businesses have to file Harmonized Sales Tax (“HST”) remittances.  For those which do, they can be a valuable source of information in the claims process…

When a business suffers a loss it will often lose the ability to sell products or services to its customers. These lost sales, however, are not always permanent and at times the insured can “make-up” the losses after the business resumes operating. Without giving consideration to this fact claim costs may increase, and the insured […]

Following a business interruption loss, you can expect many changes in the business to occur.  Revenues may drop, expenses could increase or decrease, and for a period the business may even cease operating.  Often when a business interruption loss occurs, the business is likely to experience a savings in certain expenses which would normally be […]

Business interruption policies exist to cover an insured following a loss incident. The two main issues are what is covered, and for how long.  In this post we address the issue of the indemnity period … the period over which losses are insured.

Regardless of the specific language used, the rate applied in measuring business interruptions losses will fall under one of two different styles.  For ease of reference we will refer to these styles by their traditional names – profits and earnings. While the following calculation methodologies outlined below are pretty basic, it should never be forgotten […]