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Keystone Mechanical LLC
GL 7741-0093-22, 9-page packet, read in 14 s
- Verified
CG 20 10 04 13
AI: ongoing operations
- Missing
CG 20 37
AI: completed operations
- Verified
CG 20 01 04 13
Primary & non-contributory
- Verified
CG 24 04 12 19
GL waiver of subrogation
- Verified
WC 00 03 13
WC waiver, blanket
- Owner not named
CA 20 48 10 13
Auto designated insured
Deficiency notice drafted to the subcontractor and Lakeshore Insurance Partners. Pay application 07 on hold in Procore.
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- 71%
- of subcontractor and vendor COIs contain material coverage deficiencies or missing endorsements on first review
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- of COIs claiming additional insured status fail to attach the CG 20 37 completed operations endorsement
- 64%
- of COIs claiming additional insured status fail to attach the CG 20 37 completed operations endorsement
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- CG 20 10Required
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors, Scheduled Person or Organization
CG 20 10 is the ISO endorsement that adds a scheduled owner, lessee or contractor as an additional insured on a subcontractor's or vendor's commercial general liability policy, but only for the subcontractor's ongoing operations at the scheduled location.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Required - CG 20 37Required
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors, Completed Operations
CG 20 37 adds a scheduled owner, lessee or contractor as an additional insured for completed operations: bodily injury or property damage caused, in whole or in part, by the subcontractor's finished work at the designated location.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Required - CG 20 10 11 85Conditional
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors (Form B), 1985 Edition
CG 20 10 11 85 is the November 1985 edition of the owners, lessees or contractors additional insured endorsement, known as Form B.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 11 85Conditional - CG 24 04Required
Waiver of Transfer of Rights of Recovery Against Others to Us
CG 24 04 is the ISO waiver of subrogation endorsement for commercial general liability.
General LiabilityWaiver of subrogationEdition 12 19Required - CG 20 01Required
Primary and Noncontributory, Other Insurance Condition
CG 20 01 is ISO's primary and noncontributory endorsement, introduced with the 04 13 editions.
General LiabilityPrimary & non-contributoryEdition 12 19Required - CG 25 03Conditional
Designated Construction Project(s) General Aggregate Limit
CG 25 03 gives a contractor's general liability policy a separate general aggregate limit for each designated construction project.
General LiabilityAggregate limitsEdition 05 09Conditional - CG 21 39Red flag
Contractual Liability Limitation
CG 21 39 is a red flag on any subcontractor or vendor policy.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 10 93Red flag - CG 22 94Red flag
Exclusion, Damage to Work Performed by Subcontractors on Your Behalf
CG 22 94 removes the subcontractor exception from the CGL policy's "damage to your work" exclusion.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 10 01Red flag - WC 00 03 13Required
Waiver of Our Right to Recover From Others
WC 00 03 13 is the NCCI endorsement in which a workers compensation carrier agrees not to enforce its right to recover the benefits it paid from the persons or organizations named in its schedule.
Workers CompensationWaiver of subrogationEdition 4-84 (NCCI)Required - CA 20 48Required
Designated Insured for Covered Autos Liability Coverage
CA 20 48 makes a scheduled person or organization an "insured" for Covered Autos Liability Coverage on a subcontractor's or vendor's business auto policy.
Business AutoAdditional insuredEdition 10 13Required - CG 20 26Conditional
Additional Insured, Designated Person or Organization
CG 20 26 is ISO's general-purpose scheduled additional insured endorsement.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Conditional - CG 20 33Conditional
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors, Automatic Status When Required in Construction Agreement With You
CG 20 33 is ISO's original blanket additional insured endorsement for construction.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Conditional - CG 20 38Conditional
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors, Automatic Status for Other Parties When Required in Written Construction Agreement
CG 20 38 is the blanket additional insured endorsement ISO built to fix the privity problem in CG 20 33.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Conditional - CG 24 17Conditional
Contractual Liability, Railroads
CG 24 17 restores contractual liability coverage that the standard CGL removes for railroad work.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 10 01Conditional - IL 00 17Reference
Common Policy Conditions
IL 00 17 is the Common Policy Conditions form found in nearly every ISO commercial package policy, including the CGL coverage part.
Common PolicyCoverage formEdition 11 98Reference - CG 00 01Reference
Commercial General Liability Coverage Form (Occurrence)
CG 00 01 is the ISO commercial general liability coverage form, occurrence version, and the base that every CG endorsement in this library modifies.
General LiabilityCoverage formEdition 12 25Reference - CG 21 44Red flag
Limitation of Coverage to Designated Premises, Project or Operation
CG 21 44 limits a CGL policy to the premises, project or operation shown in its schedule.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 04 17Red flag - CG 22 79Red flag
Exclusion, Contractors, Professional Liability
CG 22 79 excludes injury and damage arising out of professional services rendered by or for the named insured when it provides engineering, architectural or surveying services to others, or provides or hires independent professionals to provide those services in connection with its construction work.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 04 13Red flag - CG 20 32Conditional
Additional Insured, Engineers, Architects or Surveyors Not Engaged by the Named Insured
CG 20 32 adds architects, engineers or surveyors that the named insured did not hire, typically the owner's architect and its consultants, as additional insureds on a contractor's CGL.
General LiabilityAdditional insuredEdition 12 19Conditional - CG 24 26Red flag
Amendment of Insured Contract Definition
CG 24 26 rewrites paragraph f of the CGL's "insured contract" definition so that a contractual assumption of another party's tort liability is covered only when the bodily injury or property damage is caused, in whole or in part, by the named insured or those acting on its behalf, and only to the extent the assumption is permitted by law.
General LiabilityExclusion / limitationEdition 04 13Red flag
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The forms that decide most tenders
Most searched comparison
CG 20 10 vs CG 20 37
Ongoing operations against completed operations, and why one without the other leaves a general contractor exposed the day the work is done.
Waiver of subrogation
CG 24 04 and WC 00 03 13
Two carriers, two waivers. The 12 19 edition of CG 24 04 also needs your subcontract to say the right thing.
Red flags
CG 21 39 and CG 22 94
Endorsements that never appear on the certificate but quietly remove indemnity and construction defect coverage.
How the loss is shared
Primary, aggregate and auto
CG 20 01 decides who pays first, CG 25 03 keeps a per project limit waiting for your claim, and CA 20 48 carries insured status onto the auto policy.
CG 20 10 vs CG 20 37
Which phase of the project is your additional insured status covering?
Attach or remove endorsements, set how long the subcontractor keeps completed operations coverage on renewals, then tender each claim. The verdict uses the 04 13 wording carriers issue today.
Ongoing work
Months 0 to 14
Turned over or occupied
Month 12 onward
After completion
Years 1 to 10
CG 20 10 04 13
Covered
Gap
Gap
CG 20 37 04 13not attached
Gap
Covered
Years 1 to 5
CG 20 10 11 85not attached
Covered
Covered
Years 1 to 5
GC protected as additional insured
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CG 20 10 04 13 : gap
Excluded once that portion of the work is put to its intended use by the owner or tenants.
Read the full comparison in the CG 20 10 guide and the CG 20 37 guide. Contracts that still demand the 1985 wording are covered in the CG 20 10 11 85 guide.
Edition dates
Four digits in the footer decide the coverage
Two endorsements can share a form number and give very different protection. A CG 20 10 with a 10 01 stamp covers liability "arising out of" the subcontractor's ongoing operations; a CG 20 10 with a 04 13 stamp covers only injury the subcontractor caused at least in part, and no more than your contract requires.
Carriers issue the edition filed for the state and policy period, so a contract that demands an older edition can be impossible to satisfy. Write requirements as "this edition or a form at least as broad", and verify the stamp on every renewal, because carriers move to new editions at renewal without telling the certificate holder.
Reading the footer stamp
CG
Line of business
CG is commercial general liability. CA is business auto, IL is interline (common to several lines), WC is workers compensation.
20
Series
20 is the additional insured family. 21 and 22 hold exclusions and limitations, 24 amends coverage terms, 25 changes limits.
10
Form
The form within the series. CG 20 10 is the scheduled owners, lessees or contractors form; CG 20 37 is its completed operations partner.
04 13
Edition
Month and year the wording took effect: April 2013. The edition, not the form number, decides what the carrier owes.
NCCI workers compensation forms carry their own stamp style: WC 00 03 13 has been issued as edition 4-84 since April 1984, so a WC waiver with that stamp is current, not stale.
Additional insured editions, 1985 to 2019
11 85
"Your work": ongoing and completed operations in one form, broad "arising out of" trigger.
Read the guide10 93
Cut back to "your ongoing operations". Completed operations gone for additional insureds.
Read the guide10 01
Express completed-work exclusions in CG 20 10; CG 20 37 released to add completed operations back.
Read the guide07 04
"Caused, in whole or in part, by" replaces "arising out of". No cover for the AI's sole negligence.
Read the guide04 13
Extent permitted by law, no broader than the contract, lesser-of limits. CG 20 01 introduced.
Read the guide12 19
Limits no longer tied to the Declarations. Automatic completed ops forms CG 20 39 and CG 20 40 added.
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POLICY NUMBER: GL 7741-0093-22
Commercial General Liability
CG 20 10 04 13
Additional Insured, Owners, Lessees or Contractors, Scheduled Person or Organization
Name of additional insured person(s) or organization(s)
Location(s) of covered operations
Harborview Builders Group, LLC
1180 Market Street, Denver, CO 80202 (Project 24-117)
A. Section II, Who Is An Insured, is amended to include the person(s) or organization(s) shown in the Schedule ... liability ... "caused, in whole or in part, by" your acts or omissions ... in the performance of your ongoing operations for the additional insured(s) at the location(s) designated above.
B. Exclusions ... after all work on the project has been completed, or that portion of "your work" has been put to its intended use ...
C. The most we will pay on behalf of the additional insured is the amount of insurance required by the contract or agreement, or available under the applicable limits, whichever is less.
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Footer stamp reads CG 20 10 04 13. Rule AI-01 allows 04 13 or 12 19 for this subcontract.
1 deficiency found. Notice sent to Keystone Mechanical LLC and its broker at 09:42:13.
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