Need a market for increasing liability coverage

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steve32
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Need a market for increasing liability coverage

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Hi,

I have a client that owns a 2 unit rental property in CA. Right now she has 500,000 liability coverage for the rental property. She wants to increase the liability coverage to $1 million, but 500K liab is the highest that the insurance carrier can go.

She lives with her parents right now in CO. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
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Increasing Liability limits

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What about placing an umbrella over the rental?
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Don't most umbrella's require an underlying primary residence?
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Re: Need a market for increasing liability coverage

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If it's a personal umbrella, yes, but in this case, you could likely get a Commercial umbrella, since the exposure is commercial in nature.
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Re: Need a market for increasing liability coverage

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This client has underlying liability limits of 500,000. Do you know of a carrier that will accept this? Most commercial umbrella's that i've seen require 1Million.
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Re: Need a market for increasing liability coverage

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Steve32,

I just sent you a personal mesage. Give me a call later.
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