Everything you need to know about machinery breakdown insurance

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Machinery breakdown insurance is basically an ideal coverage for all sorts of plant and machinery, so as to undertake the repair as well as replacement of damages to such machinery. It affords protection to machinery during at rest or at work when it is dismantled or in course of operation. Want to know more about machinery breakdown insurance? Read the guide below.

What the policy covers?

The MBD policy will cover-

·         Loss, damage that isn’t excluded specifically

·         Any Sudden or unforeseen physical damage to the machinery

·         During operations at the specified premises

·         Necessitating Immediate replacement or repairing

Some of the major mechanical breakdowns risk or electrical risks are faulty design, short-circuiting, electrical arcing, faulty casting, and abnormal operating conditions. Other electrical risks include lack of machinery maintenance, foreign bodies, impact, and collision, falling, and bursting of compression, hydraulic cylinder, and steam engine cylinders.

What is some significant exclusion?

·         Under the machinery breakdown policy, there are two categories namely general exclusions and special exclusions.

·         War, invasion, Nuclear risk, civil war, strike, riot etc form part of general exclusions. Policy Excess, Loss or damage for which the manufacturer or supplier is responsible forms part of special exclusions.

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Sum Insured shall be equal to the cost of replacement of the insured property by new property of the same kind and same capacity which shall mean its replacement cost including freight and customs duties, if any, and erection costs

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