Retroactive Date Timeline
Written and reviewed by Michael LaBarbera, licensed insurance agent
A retroactive date sets a prior-acts boundary; a claims-made policy also depends on the claim and reporting dates. This timeline models those date relationships without deciding coverage. Move the dates to identify issues to review with an agent, then check the actual policy wording and endorsements.
These dates may fit the illustrative prior-acts and reporting window. The policy wording, exclusions and reporting conditions still control.
This is general education; the policy wording controls. An extended reporting period does not ordinarily insure new work after the policy ends.
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