Subject to the limit of any one occurrence any one location, this Policy insures in respect of any location of the Insured within the Territorial Limits of this Policy :
- a. All sums due to the Insured from customers provided the Insured is unable to effect collection as the direct result of loss of or damage to records of accounts receivable;
- Interest charges on any loan to offset impaired collections pending repayment of such sums made uncollectible by such loss or damage;
- Collection expense in excess of normal collection cost and made necessary because of such loss or damage;
- Other expenses, when reasonably incurred by the Insured in re-establishing records of accounts receivable following such loss or damage.
- Removal
Such insurance as is afforded by this Policy applies while the records of accounts receivable are being removed to and while at a place of safety because of imminent danger of loss or damage and while being returned from such place.
- Exclusions
This Policy does not apply :
- to loss due to bookkeeping, accounting or billing errors or omissions ;
- to loss, the proof of which as to factual existence, is dependent upon an audit of records or an inventory computation; but this shall not preclude the use of such procedures in support of claim for loss which the Insured can prove through evidence wholly apart there from which is due to a risk of loss to records of accounts receivable not otherwise excluded hereunder;
- to loss, due to alteration, falsification, manipulation, concealment, destruction or disposal of records of accounts receivable committed to conceal the wrongful giving, taking, obtaining or withholding of money securities or other property but only to the extent of such wrongful giving, taking, obtaining or withholding.
- Inspection and Audit
The Insurer shall be permitted to inspect the premises and to examine and audit the Insured’s books and records at any time during the period of insurance and any extension thereto, and to verify the amount of recoveries of accounts receivable on which the Insurer has made any settlement.
- Recoveries
After payment of loss all amounts recovered by the Insured on accounts receivable for which the Insured has been indemnified shall belong and be paid to the insurer by the Insured up to the total amount of loss paid by the Insurer but all recoveries in excess of such amounts shall belong to the Insured.
- Deductions
There shall be deducted from the total amount of accounts receivable, however established, the amounts of such accounts evidenced by records not lost or damaged, or otherwise established or collected by the Insured, and an amount to allow for probable bad debts which would normally have been uncollectible by the Insured. All unearned interest and service shall be deducted.