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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 14. Insurance
Agency 5. State Corporation Commission, Bureau of Insurance
Chapter 342. Rules Governing Standards for the Content of Homeowners Insurance Policies
11/24/2024

14VAC5-342-110. Exclusions applicable to personal liability and medical payments coverage.

A. Insurers may exclude losses under personal liability coverage for:

1. Liability assumed by the insured under contracts or agreements that are not in writing. This exclusion does not apply to liability that the insured would have had without a contract or agreement.

2. Liability assumed by the insured under a contract or agreement relating to the insured's business.

3. The insured's share of any loss assessment charged against all members of any property owners' association.

4. Bodily injury to a person covered or required to be covered under a workers' compensation or other similar law.

5. Damage to property owned by the insured.

6. Damage to property of others in the care, custody, or control of the insured.

7. Sickness, disease, or death of a residence employee unless written claim is made or suit is brought against the insured within 36 months after the end of the policy term.

B. Insurers may exclude losses under medical payments coverage:

1. To a person covered or required to be covered under a workers' compensation or other similar law;

2. To any person covered as an insured;

3. To a person, except a residence employee, regularly residing on the insured premises;

4. To a residence employee if the bodily injury occurs off the insured premises unless the injury arises out of the residence employee's employment by an insured; or

5. To a person on the insured premises because an insured's business is conducted on the premises or professional services are rendered on the premises.

C. Insurers may exclude occurrences applicable to personal liability and medical payments coverages arising from:

1. Aircraft. Insurers shall provide coverage for (i) drones without cameras and drones that are not capable of carrying people or cargo or (ii) hobby aircraft or model aircraft that are not capable of carrying people or cargo.

2. Motor vehicles, recreational motor vehicles, or hovercraft. Insurers shall provide coverage for:

a. Vehicles primarily used in servicing the residence premises while on or off the residence premises;

b. Golf carts used for golfing purposes within a golfing facility, including crossing public roads to access other parts of the golfing facility;

c. Recreational motor vehicles or hovercraft on an insured premises; and

d. Motor vehicles held in dead storage on the residence premises.

3. Watercraft that is powered by an engine with more than 25 horsepower and sailing vessels more than 26 feet in length with or without auxiliary power. Insurers shall provide coverage for bodily injury or property damage occurring on the insured premises.

4. Rendering of or failing to render professional services.

5. Business pursuits of an insured except for incidental business activities (i) conducted by an insured who is younger than 21 years of age, (ii) that produce revenues of no more than $2,500 during the policy period, or (iii) a combination of clauses (i) and (ii) of this subdivision.

6. Any premises, owned, rented, or controlled by an insured other than the insured premises.

7. An intentional act by a person insured under the policy that was directed or committed by that person, but only with respect to that person.

8. War, invasion, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war, usurped power, or action taken by governmental authority in hindering, combating, or defending against any of these events.

9. Smuggling or trafficking.

10. Sexual molestation, corporal punishment, or physical or mental abuse.

11. Transmission of a communicable disease by an insured.

12. Manufacture, delivery, use, sale, transfer, or possession of property that is unlawful.

13. Manufacture, delivery, use, sale, transfer, or possession of a controlled substance, except for the legitimate use of prescription drugs by a person following the orders of a licensed medical provider.

14. Discharge of carbon monoxide pursuant to § 38.2-235 of the Code of Virginia.

15. Bodily injury to an insured as defined in subdivisions 1 and 2 of the definition of insured in 14VAC5-342-30.

16. Entrustment or supervision by an insured of any excluded aircraft, motor vehicle, recreational motor vehicle, hovercraft, or watercraft.

17. Vicarious liability for the actions of a minor using any excluded aircraft, motor vehicle, recreational motor vehicle, hovercraft, or watercraft.

18. Nuclear reaction, radiation, or radio-active contamination.

Statutory Authority

§§ 12.1-13, 38.2-223, and 38.2-2108 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 38, Issue 11, eff. January 1, 2022.

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