Car dealerships / Hail

One storm.More than a repair bill.

Hail can hit vehicles across the lot at once. Your open lot policy may cover repairs, while deductibles and disruption leave a second financial problem.

Parametric hail can be a better fit for that cash gap: a payment schedule agreed in advance, tied to a third-party hail measurement.

THE INVENTORY

Repair the vehicles.

Traditional open lot protection addresses covered physical damage.

THE RETAINED COST

Fund the gap.

A separate hail layer can support deductibles and eligible disruption costs.

Compare the approaches

Why add parametric hail?

A simpler route to an agreed payment.

The advantage is a defined response to hail, with less reliance on vehicle-by-vehicle repair adjustment to establish the payment amount.

Two complementary jobs
The question	Traditional open lot	Parametric hail layer
What sets recovery?	Covered vehicle damage, valuation and policy terms.	The specified hail measurement and scheduled payment.
Where does it help?	Eligible repair or replacement costs for insured inventory.	Identified retentions, interruption and other eligible hail-related costs.
What needs review?	Per-vehicle and per-event deductibles, limits and covered locations.	Data source, threshold, lot location and payment tiers.

Example / before any event cap

Small retentions can add up across a lot.

80 vehicles with damage above a $2,000 per-vehicle deductible

$160,000

80 × $2,000 = $160,000 in per-vehicle retentions before an event cap. This is the kind of cash need a supplemental hail layer can help address.

Design for the lot you actually run

Address by address.
Peak inventory included.

We review main lots, off-site storage, seasonal inventory values and the deductible wording together. Then we evaluate a hail measurement and payment limit against the amount the dealership would retain.

Before we talk

A few useful answers.

Why consider parametric hail if we already have open lot coverage?

A defined payment can help fund deductibles and eligible costs left with the dealership, with a claim process centered on the agreed hail measurement. It may fit those needs better than adding more indemnity coverage alone.

Does each damaged vehicle have its own deductible?

That depends on your policy. Some structures use a per-vehicle deductible with an event minimum or maximum; others use different retentions. We read both per-vehicle and per-occurrence provisions before sizing a supplemental layer.

How much parametric hail protection should we consider?

We start with the amount your dealership could have to fund after a storm: deductibles, eligible disruption costs and other retained expenses. We review that against peak inventory and available cash, then compare payment limits and the cost of protection.

Your next step

Let’s look at your business.

Bring us the question. We’ll help you understand the exposure and the options available.

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Useful for a first conversation

Dealer open lot policy and hail deductible wording
Peak inventory values and all storage addresses
Past hail losses, repair delays and retained costs

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