Additional Optional Coverages: Pennsylvania Residents

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• Guaranteed Dwelling Replacement Cost: if dwelling qualifies for this coverage, the Company will waive the limit of liability shown on the declarations page and pay the increased amount to rebuild the dwelling to the same specifications prior to the loss.
• Limited Dwelling Replacement Cost: if dwelling qualifies for this coverage, the Company will waive the limit of liability shown on the declarations page and pay up to an additional 25% of Coverage A to rebuild the dwelling to the same specifications prior to the loss.
• Personal Property Replacement Cost: covered losses to personal property are settled on a replacement cost basis subject to endorsement provisions.
• Equipment Breakdown Enhancement Endorsement: Extends coverage for home systems and personal property due to mechanical or electrical breakdown.
• Identity Recovery Coverage: Coverage for ID Theft Case Management and Expense Reimbursement.
• Credit Card, Fund Transfer Card, Forgery and Counterfeit Money Coverage – Increased Limit: permits you to increase the limit of liability for a covered loss due to fraudulent use, loss to an "insured" caused by forgery of any check or negotiable instrument or loss to an "insured" through acceptance in good faith of counterfeit United States or Canadian paper currency.
• Personal Injury: amends the definition of "bodily injury" under Coverage E – Personal Liability to include injury arising out of one or more of the following offenses: false arrest, detention or imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or defamation of character, or invasion of privacy, wrongful eviction, or wrongful entry.
• Inflation Guard: increases the limit of liability for Coverage A, B, C and D annually by percentage shown on declarations, applied pro rata during the policy period.
• Water Backup and Sump Discharge or Overflow-PA: Coverage for water damage for losses that result from water backing up through sewers or drains.
• Scheduled Personal Property Endorsement: provides coverage for certain classes of personal property (jewelry, furs, cameras, guns, musical instruments, silverware, fine arts, golfer's equipment, postage stamps, rare and current coins) on an "all risk" basis subject to certain exclusions.
• Coverage C Increased Special Limits of Liability: used to increase the specified Special Limits of Liability under Coverage C, Personal Property.
• Special Computer Coverage: Covers computer equipment against direct physical loss subject to named exclusions in the endorsement.
• Refrigerated Property Coverage: insures, up to $500, covered property stored in freezers or refrigerators on the residence premises for direct loss as described in the endorsement.
• Limited Fungi, Wet or Dry Rot, or Bacteria Coverage: provides limited coverage for fungi, wet or dry rot, or bacteria coverage when such loss results from a covered peril that occurs during the policy period. This endorsement may only be added to policies issued for New Business.
• Premises Alarm or Fire Protection System: credit given for installation of an alarm system or automatic sprinkler system.
• Earthquake: provides coverage for direct physical loss by earthquake, including land shock waves or tremors before, during or after a volcanic eruption.
• Sinkhole Collapse: insures for direct physical loss to covered property caused by sinkhole collapse, meaning sudden settlement or collapse of the earth supporting such property and only when such settlement or collapse results from subterranean voids created by the action of water on limestone or similar rock formations.
• Ordinance or Law Coverage – Increased Coverage: Loss for damage by a peril insured against to covered property or the building containing the covered property will be settled on the basis of any ordinance or law that regulates the construction, repair or demolition of the property.
• Loss Assessment Coverage: permits you to increase the amount of loss assessment coverage available for your share of a covered loss assessment.
• Loss Assessment Coverage for Earthquake: provides coverage for your share of loss assessment for damage due to an earthquake, including land shock waves or tremors before, during or after a volcanic eruption.
• Other Structures – Increased Limits: provides additional coverage for other structures on insured premises over the Coverage B, Other Structures, limit shown on the declarations page.
• Structures Rented to Others – Residence Premises: provides coverage for structures rented to others "on the residence premises" for use as a private residence.
• Coverage B – Other Structures Away from Residence Premises: used to provide Other Structures coverage for an Other Structure that is located away from the residence premises. This endorsement does not increase the Coverage B limit shown on the declarations page.
• Specific Structures Away From the Residence Premises: used to provide Other Structures coverage for a Specific Other Structure that is located away from the residence premises for a specified amount.
• Residence Employees: used when there are more than 2 residence employees, not subject to workers compensation.
• Increased Limits on Business Property: can be used to increase the amount of the Coverage C, personal property, limit for "business personal property" that is on the "residence premises".
• Business Pursuits: Coverage E- Personal Liability and Coverage F - Medical Payments to Others apply to the permitted "business pursuits" of the insured.
• Permitted Incidental Occupancies-Residence Premises: Deletes the business exclusion for the "approved" business listed on the endorsement.
• Permitted Incidental Occupancies – Other Residence: used to expand the insured location definition of the homeowners policy to other residences in which there is a permitted incidental business exposure.
• Home Day Care Coverage Endorsement: liability coverage for Family Day Care Providers – registered family day care providers can purchase liability coverage in the amount of at least $300,000 to protect you against claims of bodily injury, property damage, or personal injury resulting out of your activities as a day care provider.
• Residence Held In Trust: Use when named insured is a trustee to provide coverage to the grantor or beneficiary named in the endorsement schedule.
• Additional Insured - Student Living Away From the Residence Premises: extends the definition of an insured to include nonresident students, listed in the schedule, under certain situations.
• Additional Insured: the person or organization that has an interest in the "residence premises" and they are included in the definition of "insured" with respect to Coverage A-Dwelling, Coverage B-Other Structures, Coverage E-Personal Liability and Coverage F-Medical Payments to Others but only with respect to the "residence premises".
• Additional Interests – Residence Premises: list people or organization that have an interest in the "residence premises".
• Extended Theft Coverage – Residence Occasional Rented: provides coverage for loss by theft while the residence premises is rented on an occasional basis as a residence, or in part to a roomer or boarder. This does not apply to the regular rental of the entire residence or of an apartment on the "residence premises".
• Additional Residence Rented to Others – 1, 2, 3, or 4 Families: provides Coverage E- Personal Liability and Coverage F - Medical Payments to Others for additional residences rented to others (1, 2, 3, or 4 family only).
• Additional Residence Occupied by Insured: permits you to extend liability to another residence occupied by insured.
• Unit Owners Coverage A Special Coverage: For HO 6 Condo only – expands the dwelling coverage from named perils to all risk.
• Watercraft: provides Coverage E – Personal Liability and Coverage F – Medical Payments to Others arising out of the ownership, maintenance, use, loading or unloading of described watercraft.