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HVAC insurance is a stack of coverages, not one policy — and the two operating models an HVAC company runs carry genuinely different risk. Here is how the coverage is structured, and why a residential service-and-replace operation and a commercial or mechanical contractor are insured differently.

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An HVAC company does not run one kind of work. Some operations run residential service — tune-ups, repair, replacement, and install in customers’ homes, on a high volume of individual jobs. Some run commercial and mechanical work — rooftop units, building systems, and large install, under general-contractor relationships. Those are two different operating models, and the way each one can go wrong is different — which means the insurance is structured differently for each. This page frames the two models, the signature exposure that leads each one, and the coverage stack that responds.

The short version: a residential HVAC operation worries most about in-home work and what it leaves behind — the property damage of working inside a customer’s home, and the completed-operations exposure when a home install fails after the job and causes a fire, a carbon-monoxide call, or water damage. A commercial / mechanical HVAC operation worries about height, scale, and contract — the rooftop and fall exposure that drives workers compensation, a building-scale completed-operations tail that pushes general liability to higher limits, and the general-contractor requirements met by an umbrella. Pick your operating model below.

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Pick your operating model

Each pillar below walks through its operating model in depth — the signature exposure, the full coverage stack, the state and regulatory picture, and how carriers underwrite it. Every coverage line links to its own coverage page, and the states we serve are on the locations index.

The two operating models

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