The limits of your coverage are set forth in your policy "Declarations." The policy describes how the limits will be applied. The amounts are the most the insurer will pay, regardless of the number of persons or organizations making claims or bringing suits against you.
The most the insurer will pay for either (1) all damages because of all bodily injuries, property damage, and medical expenses arising out of any one occurrence or (2) personal and advertising injury sustained by any one person or organization depends on the circumstances. A single occurrence can produce many costly liability claims. If a fire due to your negligence spread from your building to destroy several neighboring structures and caused a death, the value of all the claims against you could be significant even though there was only one occurrence. Regardless of the circumstances, the payment must fall within the liability and medical expenses limit shown in the policy's Declarations page.
In addition to these limits for one occurrence, the policy has aggregate limits. These apply when you have more than one occurrence that results in bodily injury and/or property damage during the policy period. Aggregate limits are divided into two sections.
1. The most the insurer will pay for all bodily injury and property damages that result from the products-completed operations hazard is twice the liability and medical expenses limit.
2. The most the insurer will pay for all bodily injury and property damages that result from occurrences other than those included under the products completed operations hazard, plus medical expenses, plus all covered personal and advertising injury, is twice the liability and medical expenses limit.
For higher coverage limits, you will need an umbrella policy.
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How are policy limits applied?
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