Wholesale distribution
Stock in the warehouse and on the road, and the customers who owe for it, carry the exposure; imported products carry the products liability of the manufacturer you cannot reach.
Lines this class usually carries
8 linesA schedule in this class that does not show one of these raises the finding "usually held in wholesale distribution, not on this schedule". Absence is a question, not a fault: the cover may sit inside another policy or have been declined on purpose.
- Property
Physical loss of or damage to your buildings, plant, stock and contents from fire, storm, water, impact, theft and the other insured perils, up to the sum insured. - Business interruption
The gross profit or revenue you lose, and the extra cost of keeping the business going, while property damage stops or slows you, for the indemnity period the policy states. - Public liability
Your legal liability to third parties for injury or property damage arising from your premises and operations, and in the AU and UK combined form for the products you sell. - Product liability
Your legal liability for injury or damage caused by a product you made, imported or sold, after it has left your hands. - Marine cargo and transit
Loss of or damage to goods while in transit by road, rail, sea or air, whether you own them or carry them for others, from loading to delivery. - Workers compensation (statutory)
Medical costs, weekly payments and lump sums for employees injured at work or made ill by it, under the scheme of the state or country where they are employed. - Commercial motor
Damage to the vehicles you own and operate, and your liability for damage to other people's property caused by them; bodily injury sits under the compulsory third party scheme in AU and under the motor policy in the UK and US. - Crime and fidelity
Direct financial loss from dishonesty by employees, and on the wider forms from third-party fraud: forged cheques, funds transfer fraud, computer fraud and social engineering.
Lines it often needs and often lacks
6 linesRaises the finding "often needed in wholesale distribution and often lacking, not on this schedule". Worth a written answer either way, so a retained exposure is a recorded decision.
- Trade credit
Payment of the invoices a customer fails to pay because of insolvency or protracted default, on the debtor limits the insurer approves. - Product recall
The cost of withdrawing a product from the market (notification, transport, destruction, replacement), the lost profit and rehabilitation costs after a contamination, defect or malicious tamper, and on some forms a customer's recall costs. - Cyber
Your own costs after a security incident (forensics, notification, restoration, business interruption from a network outage, extortion) and your liability to others for the data and systems you failed to protect. - Directors and officers
Defence costs and damages when directors, officers and (under management liability) the company itself are pursued for a wrongful act in managing the business: regulators, shareholders, creditors, employees. - Employment practices liability
Defence costs and damages for claims by employees and applicants: unfair or wrongful dismissal, discrimination, harassment, bullying, breach of employment contract. - Stock throughput
One policy for stock from raw material through processing, storage and distribution to the customer, replacing the transit and static-stock sections of several policies with one limit and one insurer.
Check your schedule against this class
Paste the schedule with a first line industry: wholesale distribution, or pick the class from the list, and the register names the lines from these two tables that the schedule does not show, beside the arithmetic on every line it does. Six lines free, no account.