Additional Limits When Catastrophic Claims Exceed Primary Coverage

One serious accident or lawsuit can blow through your primary general liability, auto, or employer's liability limits. Excess coverage fills the gap.

What’s Covered

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Excess Liability

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Additional limits that activate when primary policy limits are exhausted. Covers the same perils as underlying policies — bodily injury, property damage, and personal injury — with higher ceilings that match serious exposure.

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Catastrophic Loss Protection

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Coverage for claims involving multiple serious injuries, fatalities, or class action damages where settlements quickly exceed $1M or $2M primary limits. The difference between survival and bankruptcy.

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Following Form Coverage

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Excess policies that "follow form" of underlying policies — covering the same perils with the same exclusions. Prevents gaps between primary and excess coverage that leave you exposed mid-claim.

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Aggregate Protection

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Additional limits that apply across all claims in a policy period — critical when multiple serious incidents occur in the same year, exhausting both per-occurrence and aggregate primary limits.

How Velora Does It Differently

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Exposure-Based Limits

Exposure-Based Limits

We analyze your actual risk profile — payroll, revenue, vehicle count, operations — and recommend limits based on potential exposure, not arbitrary industry rules.

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Following Form Verification

Following Form Verification

We ensure excess policies truly follow underlying policy forms. Many programs have mismatched exclusions that create coverage gaps when complex claims hit excess layers.

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Self-Insured Retention Optimization

Self-Insured Retention Optimization

For clients with strong balance sheets, we structure higher retentions on excess layers to reduce premiums while maintaining catastrophic protection.

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Multi-Line Coordination

Multi-Line Coordination

Excess coverage should work seamlessly across GL, auto, and employer's liability. We structure programs so all underlying policies have consistent excess structures.

Excess liability coverage is your safety net

but standard programs often default to formulaic limits that don't match actual exposure, or contain exclusion mismatches that void coverage when claims span multiple policies. Velora structures excess programs with limits grounded in real exposure and forms that truly follow underlying coverage.

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