Premises and operations.
On a general liability policy, the general aggregate is the highest amount that will be paid out in a policy period no matter how many claims. For example, you may have a $1 million per occurrence limit which would mean with a $2 million aggregate, you could theoretically have (2) $1 million claims.
Inspection and Appraisal 96317 Companies-Inspecting for Insurance or Valuation Purposes - Products - completed operations for this classification are subject to the General Aggregate Limit
One Insurers total liability of a series of policies owned by the same Individual or Company
A "Per location aggregate" is an endorsement added to Commercial General Liability policies which extends separate liability limits for each location as opposed to sharing one limit. For example.... If you have a policy with 2 locations covered with a $1m Occurence/$2m Aggregate limit and you DO NOT have a "Per Location Aggregate" then both locations would share the $1m/$2m limit. If your policy includes a "Per Location Aggregate" Endorsement the both Location #1 and Location #2 would each have separate $1m/$2m limits in the event of a loss.
Most insurance companies will write 1,000,000 per occurrence with a 2,000,000 aggregate. If you wanted a total of 5,000,000 you would need a 4,000,000 umbrella/excess liability policy. But to answer your question it depends on the type of risk.
General liability covers Public and Producs Liability, therefore by having General Liability cover, public liability is covered also.
In NJ, for a $2,000,000 aggregate and a $1,000,000 per occurance, we pay about $12,000 a year. That's with a totally clean record and 8 years in business.
Aggregate = per year, which generally is the policy period.
In a insurance policy, the limit of liability is often expressed as a value per occurrence and a separate value as an aggregate limit. The policy will pay no more than the per occurrence limit for each covered occurrence Further, the pay no more than the aggregate limit for all claims during the policy period. On an insurance policy it would often be expressed as $1,000,000/$2,000,000 occurrence / aggregate The numbers listed above could be replaced by any other number, however the aggregate limit will never be less than the per occurrence limit. Alternatively, the limit could be split between per claim and aggregate instead of per occurrence and aggregate This has no effect on the meaning of aggregate in the policy. Mark Walters, ARM AAI West Insurance Group mwalters@westagy.com In a nutshell, aggregate means the total paid out for all incidents during the policy period. In the above example you could have 2 claims during the insured period for $1m each but not 3, as 3 x $1m is more than the aggregate limit.
Your general liability policy contains three separate limits. A per occurrence limit (Max paid out for any one occurrence) Aggregate (Max pay out for multiple policies on claim) Products and completed ops aggregate (Can reduce amount paid for product or operations claims, to below the other aggregate limit or even the per occurrence limit. Lack of products and completed ops coverage can also be a problem which would show no product and completed ops limit. yes - there is a separate aggregate for products coverage and premises operations.
The cost of general liability depends on said person's life, lifestyle, and home. General liability covers many public costs and product liability risks.