Occurrence: an accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to substantially the same general harmful conditions. An occurrence does not have to be sudden or tied to one moment. Damage from a slow leak over several months can qualify.
Bodily injury: bodily injury, sickness or disease sustained by a person, including death resulting from any of these at any time. Harm to reputation is not bodily injury; it belongs to personal and advertising injury.
Property damage has two parts:
- Physical injury to tangible property, including the resulting loss of use of that property.
- Loss of use of tangible property that is not physically injured. Example: a crane falls into a street, and a restaurant that is not touched cannot open for three days because the street is closed.
Electronic data is not tangible property for this definition.
Personal and advertising injury is a closed list of offenses:
- False arrest, detention or imprisonment.
- Malicious prosecution.
- Wrongful eviction or wrongful entry.
- Oral or written publication that slanders or libels a person or organization, or disparages its goods, products or services.
- Oral or written publication that violates a person's right of privacy.
- Use of another's advertising idea in your advertisement.
- Infringing another's copyright, trade dress or slogan in your advertisement.
Patent infringement is not on the list, so Coverage B does not cover it.