All licensees must provide an original certificate of insurance at least sixty (60) days prior to their event. Please present the following information to your insurance carrier as soon as possible:

• Commercial General Liability insurance against claims for bodily injury or death and property damage occurring in or upon or resulting from the Premises, such insurance to afford immediate protection to the limits of not less than $600,000 per occurrence, and $1,000,000 aggregate and such insurance shall include advertising injury and personal injury.
  
  
• Workers' Compensation (statutory amount).
  
  
• Employer's Liability - $500,000 bodily injury for each accident; disease limits of $1,000,000 per policy and $500,000 per employee.
  
  
• Business Automobile - coverage to include owned, hired, and non-owned vehicles with a combined single limit of $1,000,000. Please note that coverage for non-owned and hired vehicles is required for every event, even if the licensee does not own vehicles.
  
  
• The City of Houston shall be named as an additional insured on all policies, except Worker's Compensation, without any restrictive modifications.
  
  
• All policies shall contain an endorsement waiving any claim or right of subrogation against the City of Houston and its employees.
  
  
• The insurance company must agree to notify the Facility at least ten (10) days prior to cancellation, material alteration, or non-renewal of any policy.
  
  
• The issuer of any policy shall have a certificate of authority to transact insurance business in the State of Texas, or have a Best's rating of at least B+ and a Best's Financial Size Category of Class IV or better, according to the most current edition of Best's Key Rating Guide, Property/Casualty - United States.
  
  
• The insurance certificate should be addressed and sent to the following:
  
  City of Houston
  Convention and Entertainment Facilites Department
  Attn: David Stephenson
  P.O. Box 61469
  Houston, Texas 77208

For your convenience, the City now offers a Tenant and User Liability Insurance Policy, (TULIP) covering Commercial General Liability and Business Automibile for hired and non-owned vehicles. (Please note that the policy does not cover Workers' Compensation, Employer's Liability or Business Automibile for owned vehicles.)

If you or your insurance agent have questions about any of the foregoing, then please contact David Stephenson at 713-853-8554, or by email at david.stephenson@cityofhouston.net