Owning and operating a horse ranch comes with the joy of caring for these magnificent animals but also involves significant responsibilities and risks. To save your venture and give security to your equine colleagues and property. It is crucial to have a comprehensive understanding of horse ranch insurance.
Stables are an essential aspect of a horse’s indoor environment. It is necessary to keep the stables safe and secure to be a healthy place for the horses. Install locks that cannot be easily jimmied open by criminals. Also, ensure that all internal cabling is in conduits so that it cannot be a hazard to the horses or rodents.
Coverage
Whether you own your facility to board horses for outside owners, give riding lessons, or run a breeding operation, horse ranch insurance is essential. A commercial general liability policy with equine personal and professional liability, as well as property coverage, can help protect your dreams and financial stability in the event of a loss.
Optional Full Mortality coverage, which pays up to your chosen limit if your horse dies from an accident or illness during the policy term or is destroyed for humane reasons, is also offered by equine farm and ranch liability policies. Standard homeowners policies do not include this valuable protection.
You can also include coverage for barns, arenas, and other farm structures as well as personal property on a replacement cost basis. Various deductibles and liability limits are available. Your agent can help you tailor an equine farm and ranch policy to fit your needs.
Liability
Horses are large animals that can cause damage to people and property. Even if you only board or breed horses, you must protect yourself against the liability of owning and operating them.
For example, a friend visits your ranch to go for a ride on one of your horses. However, the horse spooks and bolts, causing her to fall off and hit her head. Brain damage may result, and you could face lawsuits for the resulting medical bills and lost wages. Liability insurance helps cover these costs.
We design equine farm liability policies to provide the coverage you need. They offer a broad commercial general liability with limits and include boarding, breeding, and training operations and insurable equine activities such as riding lessons, competitions, and clinics. Additionally, an optional equine care, custody, and control policy is available to cover losses to non-owned horses in your care, possession, or control. Standard personal or commercial general liability policies often exclude this.
Damage to Property
Horse ranch owners have unique property exposures that a standard homeowners policy may not adequately address. For example, home insurance does not generally cover loss to barns, stables, or other farm structures, and a standard personal automobile policy excludes coverage for horses.
In addition, if a private horse owner engages in commercial activity such as boarding, riding lessons, or breeding, they will need a policy specifically designed for the equine industry. We offer a farm and ranch owner’s policy that provides coverage for the buildings, equipment, and equine liability exposures of most equine operations.
Additionally, they also offer a particular policy for those who have non-owned horses in their care, custody, or control. This type of policy provides legal liability. This is important because many boarding facilities require their boarders to sign liability release waivers and hold harmless agreements, so this policy is an excellent add-on to protect against these risks.
Medical Payments
A specialized ranch insurance policy can provide the specific liability coverage horse owners need for their farm or stables. While a typical homeowners policy may cover liability for people with a few horses in the backyard, many horse ranches need a different approach because they are involved in breeding, selling, training, and boarding horses.
Other essential features of horse ranch insurance include a variety of property coverages that are unique to this type of business. This includes replacement costs for barns, arena, and other structures on the property. We usually cover business personal property (tack and hay) on a blanket basis for a single limit.
Major medical and veterinary services coverages are also available. We generally offer these on a scheduled or unscheduled basis and can pay for reasonable and customary veterinary expenses necessary because of injury, sickness, or disease. These coverages typically have a deductible. In addition to standard animal mortality and general liability policies, we offer these coverages. Read more exciting articles on Smartmetaclicks
