Coverage on a Boat Insurance Policy
A boat Insurance
policy protects your boat, motor, boat equipment against loss or damage from
sinking, fire, storms, theft, capsizing, stranding, collision, and explosion.
Property covered:
Equipment permanently
attached to the boat, anchors, oars, electric trolling motors, extra fuel
tanks, tools, detachable canopies, seat cushions, life preservers, skis and
their tow ropes, and dinghies.
Liability coverage:
- Watercraft Liability coverage provides protection
for legal liability because of an accident resulting from the ownership,
maintenance, or use of your watercraft, including bodily injury, property
damage and legal defense.
- Watercraft Medical Payments coverage pays medical expenses
up to the limits in the policy for you, your resident relatives and other
occupants of the boat injured by an accident arising out of the ownership,
maintenance, or use of the watercraft.
Additional coverage:
- Newly acquired watercraft covers your newly acquired
watercraft for damage caused by an insured loss.
- Reasonable repairs covers repairs incurred to
protect covered property from further damage.
- Emergency service pays up to $500 for reasonable
costs that you incur resulting from specified emergency service to your
boat, motor or boat trailer.
- Wreck removal pays the reasonable expenses you incur for any
attempted or actual raising, removal or destruction of the wreck of your
watercraft when damage is caused by an insured loss and removal or
destruction required by law.