Tail Coverage
For claims-made policies, tail coverage is purchased to protect against losses or claims which have not yet been discovered or reported. In this case, a retroactive date is purchased. For occurrence policies, this is unnecessary as claims are handled according to when they happened instead of when they were reported or discovered.
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