Commercial coverage · Commercial Property

The buildings, equipment, and income your business runs on.

Commercial property covers your buildings, equipment, and stock against fire, wind, theft, and the other named or open perils on the form, and pairs with business income coverage that replaces revenue while you rebuild. The terms, not the premium, decide whether a storm is a claim or a catastrophe.

Verdict ladder

From a slip & fall to a class action.

Slip & fall

$220K

Premises tort

$580K

Product defect

$1.4M

Class-action wave

$4.6M

GL gap library$78M peer median tower

What this covers

Plain English. Not the marketing version.

Direct physical loss to covered property: buildings, business personal property, tenant improvements, equipment, and stock, valued at replacement cost or actual cash value depending on the form. Business income and extra expense ride alongside, replacing lost profit and continuing expenses during restoration. What it does not cover matters as much: flood and earthquake are excluded and placed separately, mechanical breakdown needs its own coverage, and wind in coastal zones often routes through state pools with separate deductibles.

When this matters

The moment carriers expect to see this.

From the first lease. Landlords require evidence of property coverage and business income protection before keys change hands, and lenders require it before money moves. The stakes scale with concentration: a single-facility operation with one production line carries existential property risk that a distributed business does not.

For your eyes only

Questions worth asking about your current commercial property coverage.

Four specifics a well-served buyer should already be hearing about this coverage in this market. Read silently. Answer internally.

When were your declared values last reindexed against current construction costs, and would they pass the coinsurance test today?
What is your wind-hail deductible in dollars at your insured values, not as a percentage?
Does your business income coverage run long enough for a realistic rebuild, including permitting and equipment lead times?
Is your roof valued at replacement cost or actual cash value, and is cosmetic damage excluded?

What we flag most often

What ARIA flags most often on Commercial Property.

Every flag names the issue, the specific finding, and where it applies, the consequence. Once you upload your declarations, ARIA's full output also cites the exact policy page that proves each one.

Coinsurance penalty
Most property forms carry an 80 or 90 percent coinsurance clause. If declared values lag actual replacement cost, the carrier pays claims proportionally short, even small ones.
A business insured to 60 percent of value collects roughly 75 cents on the dollar for a partial loss, plus the uninsured gap on a total one.
Business income period of restoration
Standard forms cap the income recovery window, often at 12 months, while real rebuilds with permitting, long-lead equipment, and contractor scarcity routinely run 18 to 24.
The last six or more months of payroll and lost profit are self-funded exactly when the balance sheet is weakest.
Ordinance or law
Code-triggered upgrades after a partial loss (sprinklers, ADA, electrical) are excluded unless ordinance-or-law coverage is added. Older buildings feel this hardest.
Wind and hail deductible drift
Percentage wind-hail deductibles and actual-cash-value roof endorsements have spread far beyond the coast. The roof terms quietly shift storm cost onto the insured.
Utility services and off-premises power
Power failure that starts off your premises is excluded unless endorsed. In ice-storm and grid-stress regions, this endorsement is the operative protection.
Vacancy clause
Buildings vacant beyond the form's threshold (commonly 60 days) lose vandalism, sprinkler leakage, and theft coverage, and other recoveries get reduced.

Peer benchmark

Where peers your size sit. Premium, not pretense.

Annual premium distribution for a comparable business in your industry and revenue band, drawn from anonymized placements. Your specific position is computed when ARIA reads your declarations page.

Property premium. $25M manufacturer

$25M revenue · $12M insured values · sprinklered

P25 · $46KMedian · $72KP75 · $112K

Illustrative dataset · n=128 mid-market placements · refreshed quarterly

Ask ARIA

“Read our property dec page and tell me whether our declared values would survive a coinsurance test at current construction costs, what our wind-hail deductible is in dollars, and how long our business income extension actually runs.”

Critical for

Industries where this coverage is non-negotiable.

Manufacturing
Hospitality & Hotels
Real Estate & Property Management
Construction & Contractors
Any single-facility operation

Ready when you are

Have ARIA read your Commercial Property policy.

The first gap usually surfaces in the first minute of ARIA reading your declarations page.

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The buildings, equipment, and income your business runs on.

Plain English. Not the marketing version.

The moment carriers expect to see this.