Section 3925.34 | Authorized fields of insurance for fire insurance companies.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

All companies, organized or admitted to do business for the purpose of insuring against loss or damage by fire, may insure against any of the following:

(A) Loss or damage by water caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps, tanks, water pipes, and fixtures connected therewith, and caused by lightning, explosion from gas, dynamite, gun powder and other like explosions, and tornadoes;

(B) Loss by theft of automobiles and accessories and damage thereto from this cause;

(C) All direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage to dwelling houses, stores, and all kinds of buildings and household furniture, and all other property and interest therein, including loss by fire, lightning, windstorm, tornado, cyclone, hail, tempest, flood, earthquake, frost or snow, weather or climatic conditions including excess or deficiency of moisture, rain or drought, rising of the waters of the ocean or its tributaries, bombardment, invasion, insurrection, riot, civil war or commotion, military or usurped power, explosion, fire ensuing, and explosion, no fire ensuing, except explosion by steam boiler or flywheels;

(D) Loss or damage by insects or disease to farm crops or products, and loss of rental value of land used in producing such crops or products;

(E) Loss or damage by water or other fluid to any goods or premises caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps or other apparatus, water pipes, or plumbing, or their fixtures, or of other conduits or containers, or by water entering through leaks or openings in buildings, and accidental injury to such sprinklers, pumps, other apparatus, water pipes, plumbing or fixtures, conduits, or containers;

(F) Loss or damage, by any of the risks of navigation and transportation, to vessels, boats, cargoes, goods, merchandise, freights, and other property and interest therein;

(G) Loss or damage to automobiles, airplanes, seaplanes, dirigibles, or other aircraft, or interest therein, whether stationary or operated under their own power;

(H) Loss or damage by any of the causes or risks specified in this section, including also transportation collision, explosion, or any peril or hazard resulting from the ownership, maintenance, or use of automobiles or motor vehicles, airplanes, seaplanes, dirigibles, or other aircraft, including burglary and theft, vandalism, malicious mischief, or the wrongful conversion, disposal, or concealment thereof and the accessories thereto, whether held under conditional sale contract or subject to chattel mortgage, and to effect reinsurance of any risk taken, but not including loss or damage by risk of bodily injury to the person.

Available Versions of this Section

• October 1, 1953 – House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly