Alaska Statutes: AS 21.12.090. Marine, Wet Marine, and Transportation Insurance Defined.

Alaska Statutes. Title 21. Insurance Chapter 12. Kinds of Insurance, Limits of Risk, and Reinsurance Section 90. Marine, Wet Marine, and Transportation Insurance Defined.

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AS 21.12.090. Marine, Wet Marine, and Transportation Insurance Defined.

   (a) "Marine insurance" includes
        (1) insurance against any and all kinds of loss or damage to
             (A) vessels, craft, aircraft, cars, automobiles, and vehicles of every kind, as well as all goods, freights, cargoes, merchandise, effects, disbursements, profits, money, bullion, precious stones, securities, choses in action, evidences of debt, valuable papers, bottomry and respondentia interests and all other kinds of property and interests therein, in respect to, appertaining to, or in connection with any and all risks or perils of navigation, transit, or transportation, including war risks, on or under any seas or other waters, on land or in the air, or while being assembled, packed, crated, baled, compressed, or similarly prepared for shipment or while awaiting shipment or during delays, storage, transshipment, or reshipment incident thereto, including marine builder's risks and all personal property floater risks;
             (B) a person or to property in connection with or appertaining to a marine, inland marine, transit or transportation insurance, including liability for loss of or damage to either, arising out of or in connection with the construction, repair, operation, maintenance, or use of the subject matter of the insurance (but not including life insurance or surety bonds or insurance against loss by reason of bodily injury to the person arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of automobiles);
             (C) precious stones, jewels, jewelry, gold, silver, and other precious metals, whether used in business or trade or otherwise and whether in the course of transportation or otherwise;
             (D) bridges, tunnels, and other instrumentalities of transportation and communication (excluding buildings, their furniture and furnishings, fixed contents and supplies held in storage) unless fire, tornado, sprinkler leakage, hail, explosion, earthquake, riot and/or civil commotion are the only hazards to be covered; piers, wharves, docks and slips, excluding the risks of fire, tornado, sprinkler leakage, hail, explosion, earthquake, riot and/or civil commotion; other aids to navigation and transportation, including dry docks and marine railways, against all risks;
        (2) "marine protection and indemnity insurance", meaning insurance against, or against legal liability of the insured for loss, damage, or expense arising out of, or incident to, the ownership, operation, chartering, maintenance, use, repair, or construction of a vessel, craft, or instrumentality in use in ocean or inland waterways, including liability of the insured for personal injury, illness, or death or for loss of or damage to the property of another person.
   (b) For the purposes of this title "wet marine and transportation" insurance is that part of marine insurance that includes only
        (1) insurance on vessels, crafts, and hulls, and insurance of interests in or with relation to vessels, crafts, and hulls;
        (2) insurance of marine builder's risks, marine war risks and contracts of marine protection and indemnity insurance;
        (3) insurance of freights and disbursements pertaining to a subject of insurance coming within this section; or
        (4) insurance of personal property and interests in personal property, in the course of exportation from or importation into any country, and in the course of transportation coastwise or on inland waters, including transportation by land, water, or air from point of origin to final destination, in respect to, appertaining to, or in connection with, any and all risks or perils of navigation, transit, or transportation, and while being prepared for and while awaiting shipment, and during delays, storage, transshipment, or reshipment incident thereto.

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