⛄This course introduces trucking exposures and insurance to finance those exposures, focusing on the standard coverage forms developed for this line by Insurance Services Office, Inc. It examines key motor vehicle statutes, the public policy issues behind the statutes, and the effect of these statutes on various types of commercial auto and motor carrier coverages.

🅷Most businesses have a transit exposure: an exposure to loss of personal property while it is being moved from one place to another by truck, rail, air, or sea. This course introduces the legal obligations and exposures that can arise from transit in general and then specifically by type of transportation. It then delves into the several different types of insurance are designed to protect property while it is in transit from one place to another by land, sea, and air, looking at key provisions and unique terminology and coverage.

𝔉While the focus for transportation companies usually is on the liabilities and insurance coverages that arise from the risks specific to their operations, i.e., operation of land vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and trains, these companies also face other liabilities arising from business-related activities similar to other businesses, such as maintenance of business premises, activities of employees on and away from those premises; advertising, sales, and marketing operations; and maintenance of an Internet presence. This course identifies the risks to which the companies can be exposed and the various forms of liability insurance that can provide protection from liability claims.

꧟The logistics and transportation industry pervades nearly every area of our lives because virtually everything we use or consume had to be transported to us in some manner, through some aspect of today’s transportation system. The transportation system is made up of a network of highways, pipelines, rail transit, and waterways over which it moves goods and people. It links natural resources, manufacturing facilities, labor markets, and customers across the United States as well as with international sources. This course provides an overview of the transportation industry and its subsectors of the transportation industry both in the present and future.

🎶Studies show that transportation is the second-most hazardous industry for workers compensation claims. While vehicle accidents are the most common causes of transportation industry injuries, airline employees experience the most injuries. This course deals with the federal laws that govern work-related injuries and illnesses and deals with stop gap insurance for monopolistic states and the federal laws that affect some transportation. It discusses the issues involved in insuring interstate operations under a state-based workers compensation system and examines the laws and federal acts affecting maritime transportation and insurance.