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School Loses Cool, Home Too Hot
Air Conditioning Breakdowns a Risk to Any Class of Business

Most of your clients have significant air conditioning exposures. These examples of actual claims are typical of air conditioning breakdowns reported to HSB.

  • HSB recently paid a church $42,600 for electrical damage to air conditioning compressors, fan motors and controls.
  • The cost of renting two portable compressors for a 14-story office building was included in a $189,543 paid claim.
  • Extensive damage was caused when a school's 261 hp centrifugal chiller continued to run without oil, resulting in a $103,545 paid loss.
  • A township collected $45,191 after a surge shorted out AC compressors.
  • A family received $6,000 for repairs when a heat pump broke down and their home lost air conditioning.

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