Provides additional insured coverage for automobile liability. It also includes primary and noncontributory status. Coverage is extended to any person or organization required by written contract.
What Does This Coverage Include?
Modifies the Business Auto/Commercial Auto policy to address contract-driven risk transfer requirements—particularly Additional Insured status, primary and noncontributory wording, and waiver of subrogation.
Adds **Additional Insured** coverage so a client, project owner, or other required party can be protected for covered auto liability arising from your use of insured vehicles in connection with the agreement.
Helps extend defense and indemnity to the Additional Insured for allegations of vicarious liability tied to your drivers, your operations, or your covered autos—subject to the policy terms and exclusions.
Includes **Primary and Noncontributory** status, supporting contracts that require your auto policy to respond first without contribution from the Additional Insured’s auto coverage.
Written on a **blanket** basis, extending the applicable coverage to any person or organization required by written contract—often helpful for contractors working across multiple clients or job sites.
Commonly requested when a contract requires evidence that automobile liability coverage supports the risk transfer provisions in the agreement, especially where vehicles are used on or around a project site.
What Is NOT Covered?
The following coverages can be included if endorsed elsewhere
Waiver of subrogation: This endorsement does not waive the insurer’s rights of recovery against required parties following a covered auto loss.
Why Is This Endorsement Important?
Helps satisfy auto-related contract requirements so required parties can be treated as **Additional Insureds** for covered auto liability tied to your use of vehicles.
Strengthens risk transfer when an accident triggers allegations against multiple parties—for example, when a site owner is named due to operations involving your vehicle.
Supports contract language requiring your auto policy to be **primary and noncontributory**, reducing contribution demands on the other party’s auto insurance.
Streamlines compliance by extending applicable coverage to parties required by written contract, reducing the need to issue a new endorsement for each client or project.
How Do You Review This Coverage?
Ensure that policy number - when printed - matches the COI
Ensure that expiration date - when printed - is not yet expired
Ensure that no invalidating watermarks (e.g. Sample) are included
Review any specific limitations or restrictive language.
Ensure the blanket language, if not broad, is applicable to your entities.
What Other Endorsements Work With This?
Code
What It Does
When to use it
CA 04 43
Adds waiver of subrogation in favor of the additional insureds.
Required if the contract demands that the carrier’s rights of recovery do not apply to the additional insureds.