3 Marine Cyber Endorsement, Communicable Disease Exclusion, Coronavirus Exclusion and Five Powers War Exclusion (Rule 40.3)

Marine Cyber Endorsement

  1. Subject only to paragraph 3 below, in no case shall this insurance cover loss, damage, liability or expense directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from the use or operation, as a means for inflicting harm, of any computer, computer system, computer software programme, malicious code, computer virus, computer process or any other electronic system.

  2. Subject to the conditions, limitations and exclusions of the policy to which this clause attaches, the indemnity otherwise recoverable hereunder shall not be prejudiced by the use or operation of any computer, computer system, computer software programme, computer process or any other electronic system, if such use or operation is not as a means for inflicting harm.

  3. Where this clause is endorsed on policies covering risks of war, civil war, revolution, rebellion, insurrection, or civil strife arising therefrom, or any hostile act by or against a belligerent power, or terrorism or any person acting from a political motive, paragraph 1 shall not operate to exclude losses (which would otherwise be covered) arising from the use of any computer, computer system or computer software programme or any other electronic system in the launch and/or guidance system and/or firing mechanism of any weapon or missile.

LMA5403 11 November 2019

Communicable Disease Exclusion

  1. In the event that the World Health Organization (‘WHO’) has determined an outbreak of a Communicable Disease to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (a ‘Declared Communicable Disease’), no coverage will be provided under this (re)insurance for any loss, damage, liability, cost or expense directly arising from any transmission or alleged transmission of the Declared Communicable Disease.

  2. The exclusion in paragraph 1 of this endorsement will not apply to any liability of the (re)insured otherwise covered by this (re)insurance where the liability directly arises from an identified instance of a transmission of a Declared Communicable Disease and where the (re)insured proves that identified instance of a transmission took place before the date of determination by the WHO of the Declared Communicable Disease.

  3. However even if the requirements of paragraph 2 of this endorsement are met, no coverage will be provided under this (re)insurance for any:

    1. liability, cost or expense to identify, clean up, detoxify, remove, monitor, or test for the Declared Communicable Disease whether the measures are preventative or remedial;

    2. liability for or loss, cost or expense arising out of any loss of revenue, loss of hire, business interruption, loss of market, delay or any indirect financial loss, howsoever described, as a result of the Declared Communicable Disease;

    3. loss, damage, liability, cost or expense caused by or arising out of fear of or the threat of the Declared Communicable Disease.

  4. As used in this endorsement, Communicable Disease means any disease, known or unknown, which can be transmitted by means of any substance or agent from any organism to another organism where:

    1. the substance or agent includes but is not limited to a virus, bacterium, parasite or other organism or any variation or mutation of any of the foregoing, whether deemed living or not, and

    2. the method of transmission, whether direct or indirect, includes but is not limited to human touch or contact, airborne transmission, bodily fluid transmission, transmission to or from or via any solid object or surface or liquid or gas, and

    3. the disease, substance or agent may, acting alone or in conjunction with other co-morbidities, conditions, genetic susceptibilities, or with the human immune system, causedeath, illness or bodily harm or temporarily or permanently impair human physical or mental health or adversely affect the value of or safe use of property of any kind.

  5. This endorsement shall not extend this (re)insurance to cover any liability which would not have been covered under this (re)insurance had this endorsement not been attached.

All other terms, conditions and limitations of this (re)insurance remain the same.

JL2021-014

8th March 2021 Coronavirus Exclusion (for use on marine and energy liability policies)

This clause shall be paramount and shall override anything contained in this insurance inconsistent therewith.

This insurance excludes coverage for:

  1. any loss, damage, liability, cost, or expense directly arising from the transmission or alleged transmission of:

    1. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19);

    2. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); or

    3. any mutation or variation of SARS-CoV-2; or from any fear or threat of a, b or c above;

  2. any liability, cost or expense to identify, clean up, detoxify, remove, monitor, or test for a, b or c above;

  3. any liability for or loss, cost or expense arising out of any loss of revenue, loss of hire, business interruption, loss of market, delay or any indirect financial loss, howsoever described, as a result of any of a, b or c above or the fear or the threat thereof.

All other terms, conditions and limitations of the insurance remain the same. LMA5395 – 9 April 2020

Five Powers War Exclusion

  1. This insurance excludes loss, damage, liability, or expense arising from

    1. the outbreak of war (whether there be a declaration of war or not) between any of the following: United Kingdom, United States of America, France, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China;

    2. requisition either for title or use."

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