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Commercial Property and Liability Insurance (CPCU 552) – 100 Exam Questions with Answers | CGL Coverage, Workers Compensation, Business Auto | CPCU Certification 2026

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This document contains 100 CPCU 552 Commercial Property and Liability (CP&L) exam questions with verified answers designed to help candidates prepare for the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) certification examination. The material presents exam-style practice questions covering commercial liability exposures, insurance policy structures, coverage triggers, and risk management principles that are essential for professionals working in property-casualty insurance and commercial risk management. The content aligns with the concepts taught in the CPCU 552: Commercial Liability Risk Management and Insurance textbook, a core resource used in CPCU certification programs. The questions explore how businesses manage liability exposures arising from operations, products, professional services, and contractual obligations. Key topics include the structure of Commercial General Liability (CGL) coverage, including Coverage A (Bodily Injury and Property Damage), Coverage B (Personal and Advertising Injury), and Coverage C (Medical Payments). These sections explain how insurers determine when coverage applies, how aggregate limits operate, and how exclusions affect coverage outcomes in real-world claims scenarios. The document also covers commercial insurance policy limits and claims calculations, including how the general aggregate limit of a CGL policy is reduced by claims payments under different coverages. For example, scenarios illustrate how medical payments, premises liability claims, and personal and advertising injury claims affect the remaining aggregate limits under a CGL policy. These calculations help insurance professionals understand how policy limits function when multiple claims arise during a policy period. Another major focus of the document is workers compensation and employers liability insurance, including how coverage responds to employee injuries arising out of employment. The questions review statutory workers compensation systems, retaliation claims for filing workers compensation claims, and coverage under federal statutes such as the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act (LHWCA). The material also addresses how workers compensation interacts with other insurance coverages when employees are injured while performing job duties. The document also examines business auto liability and auto-related insurance coverage, including the Business Auto Coverage Form (BACF), uninsured motorist coverage, personal injury protection (PIP), and auto liability exclusions under CGL policies. Students review real-world scenarios involving employee use of vehicles, hit-and-run accidents, and claims involving company-owned or employee-owned vehicles used in business operations. Additional topics covered include specialized liability coverages, such as directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, employment practices liability (EPL) insurance, cyber risk coverage triggers, liquor liability coverage, and railroad protective liability coverage. The document also explores how federal regulations such as the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), the Dodd-Frank Act, and environmental liability laws like CERCLA affect insurance coverage and risk management decisions. The material also discusses risk control and liability loss management techniques, including loss prevention, loss reduction, risk avoidance, and noninsurance risk transfer strategies such as hold-harmless agreements. These concepts help organizations reduce their liability exposures and improve their overall risk management programs. Because the questions combine insurance policy analysis with legal liability concepts such as negligence, strict liability, contractual liability, and statutory liability, the document functions as both a practice exam resource and a comprehensive study guide for professionals studying commercial liability insurance. Courses where this document may be relevant include: CPCU 552: Commercial Property and Liability Insurance Commercial Liability Risk Management Property and Casualty Insurance Principles Insurance Coverage and Policy Analysis Risk Management and Insurance Corporate Risk and Liability Management Students and professionals who may benefit from this document include: Candidates preparing for the CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter) certification Insurance underwriters and claims professionals Risk managers and corporate insurance specialists Insurance agents and brokers working in commercial insurance Business and finance students studying risk management Professionals studying liability coverage and commercial insurance policy structures This study resource provides a comprehensive review of liability exposures, insurance policy provisions, and risk management strategies necessary for success in CPCU certification exams and professional insurance practice. 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CPCU 552 CP&L FINAL EXAM
2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 100% PASS



Railroad owners commonly require contractors to purchase a Railroad

Protective Liability Coverage Form. Which one of the following statements

about this form is true? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of the coverage limits applies

to physical damage to property owned by or leased or entrusted to the

railroad

,Which one of the following statements about the general aggregate limit

under a Commercial General Liability (CGL) Coverage Form is true? -

🧠ANSWER ✔✔It is reduced by an claims paid for medical payments under

Coverage C.

Tom often runs errands for his boss at XYZ Company, using the boss' car.

On one of these errands, Tom is involved in a serious auto accident. He

spends a couple of weeks in the hospital; misses four weeks of work; and

must undergo physical therapy. Does XYZ's Workers Compensation and

Employers Liability Insurance (WC&EL) Policy cover Tom's injuries, lost

income, and rehabilitation expenses? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Yes, the workers

compensation policy would pay all of Tom's expenses, because his injuries

arose out of his employment at XYZ Company.

Aircraft have a significant exposure to catastrophe losses. Of the many

reasons for the catastrophic loss potential of aircraft, the most significant is

- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The physical properties of aircraft.


A security guard is employed at a pier where shipping containers are

loaded and unloaded from barges. There is also a small marina for

pleasure craft at the pier. The security guard trips over equipment left on a

dock alongside a pleasure craft and is injured. The pier only has insurance

,coverage that provides benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers

Compensation Act (LHWCA). Is the guard's injury covered under LHWCA?

- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The injury is covered by LHWCA because the guard is not

covered under a state's workers compensation law.

ABC Plumbing entered into a contract with Bill to install a commercial grade

septic system on his property. The installation of the septic septic was time

sensitive because the rest of Bill's construction project could not go forward

until the septic system was in place. The contract required that the work be

done within 30 days of contract signing, or ABC would have to pay a

penalty of $1,000 per day. Which one of the following categories of

damages does the $1,000 per day penalty specified in the contract fall

into? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Liquidated damages


Many states have funds from which employers may purchase workers

compensation insurance. Such funds may be either - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Competitive or monopolistic


Section II—Who Is an Insured identifies the persons and organizations that

qualify as insureds under the Commercial General Liability (CGL)

Coverage Form. Which one of the following statements regarding who is

considered an insured is most accurate? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a CGL


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, policy covers one or more individuals as named insureds, any person or

organization having proper temporary custody of the named insured's

property following the named insured's death is an insured.

What is the name given to a claim by an employee who says that he or she

was fired because of the filing of a workers compensation claim? -

🧠ANSWER ✔✔Retaliation claim


Javier's business auto policy contains a personal injury protection (PIP)

endorsement. He is involved in an auto accident in the covered auto,

resulting in $30,000 in property damage, $5,000 in third-party bodily injury,

and $10,000 in personal medical expenses. If Javier's business auto policy

has a general aggregate limit of $100,000 and a PIP limit of $15,000 and

he is at fault for the accident, how much will his insurer pay under the PIP

coverage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔PIP provides first-party benefits for medical

expenses, loss of income, loss of services, and funeral expenses resulting

from bodily injury to occupants of a covered auto because of an auto

accident. It pays regardless of which party was at fault in the accident.

Therefore, Javier's insurer will pay him $10,000 in medical expenses from

the PIP coverage. The other damages will be payable under different

coverages available on his policy.

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