(a) Domestic insurance companies having power to insure against loss by fire, in addition to such other powers as they may have under their respective charters, and foreign and alien insurance companies authorized to do business in this state and having power to insure against such loss, may make insurances on any kind of property or valuable interest therein (1) against loss or damage by fire, lightning and other electrical disturbances, wind, tornado, cyclone, earthquake, hail, frost, snow, ice, weather or climatic conditions, including excess or deficiency of moisture, flood, rain or drought, rising of the waters of the ocean or its tributaries, bombardment, invasion, insurrection, riot, strikes, sabotage, war, civil war or commotion, military or usurped power, and by explosions whether fire ensues or not, except explosions of steam boilers; (2) against loss or damage by insects, disease or other causes to trees, crops or other products of the soil; (3) against loss or damage arising from the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps or other apparatus erected for extinguishing fires or of water pipes or other conduits or containers; (4) against accidental injury to or by such sprinklers, pumps, apparatus, water pipes, conduits or containers; (5) against loss or damage by water entering through leaks or openings in buildings; (6) on automobiles, airplanes, seaplanes, dirigibles and other aircraft and on any valuable interest therein; (7) against loss or damage from all or any of the hazards of fire, explosion, transportation and collision and from legal liability for damage to property resulting from the maintenance and use thereof, and from burglary, theft, vandalism, malicious mischief or wrongful conversion, disposal or concealment whether or not held under a conditional sale contract or subject to chattel mortgage; (8) against intentional or other damage to, or loss of, property of any kind, real or personal; and (9) to effect reinsurances of any risks taken by them.

(b) “Loss or damage”, as used in this section, includes loss of use and occupancy, loss of rents, rental values and profits and consequential damages.

(1949 Rev., S. 6103; P.A. 90-243, S. 51.)

History: P.A. 90-243 divided the section into Subsecs., substituted “foreign” for “nonresident” and “alien” for “foreign”, and added Subdiv. indicators in the new Subsec. (a); Sec. 38-107 transferred to Sec. 38a-305 in 1991.