What Is Product Liability Insurance?
It protects manufacturers, distributors, and sellers against covered claims that their products injured someone or damaged property.
A product-liability claim alleges that a product caused bodily injury or damaged another party’s property. Coverage may sit within CGL products-completed operations or be issued separately, depending on the quote.
Check products and legal entities insured, territory, limits, exclusions, and whether defense costs reduce limits. Read the actual grant and definitions; the coverage label is not a standard form.
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Sources for Product Liability Insurance Answers
- Facts + Statistics: Product liability. Insurance Information Institute; Product liability insurance opening definition (manufacturer, distributor, or seller; defective condition causing personal injury or damage); Product recall insurance sentence. Accessed 2026-09-25.
- Product liability, recall and contamination insurance. Insurance Information Institute; Product liability opening (design/manufacture/distribute/sell; injury, property damage or death; added to GL or stand-alone); What could go wrong? (roles; directions/warnings); Covering the costs of a product recall; Contamination insurance. Accessed 2026-09-25.
- Commercial Insurance Guide. California Department of Insurance; Commercial General Liability Coverage: premises, products liability and completed operations; major exclusions including damage to your work, impaired property, sistership liability and failure to perform; Limits of Insurance products and completed operations aggregate; glossary Sistership Liability. Accessed 2026-09-25.
- Commercial General Liability Coverage Form. ISO Properties, Inc.; specimen hosted by Hiscox; Recall exclusion p.5; Supplementary Payments pp.8–9; Section III limits p.10; V.16 and V.21 p.15, warnings/instructions continue p.16. Accessed 2026-09-25.