Can Clean Your Dirty Face periodically increase the required amounts of insurance coverage?
Clean_Your_Dirty_Face Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
During the term of this Agreement you must maintain in force at your sole expense comprehensive public liability, general liability, personal injury liability, motor vehicle liability, property, product liability, workmen's compensation, employment practices liability, commercial liability umbrella, business interruption insurance, and other types of insurance we require. We reserve the right to require that you obtain all or a portion of your insurance policies from a designated vendor and on the terms and according to the specifications we approve. The liability insurance must cover claims for bodily and personal injury, death, and property damage caused by or occurring in connection with your Business's operation or activities of your personnel in the course of their employment (within and outside your Business and the Premises). All of these policies must contain the minimum coverage we prescribe from time to time, and must have deductibles not to exceed the amounts we specify. We may periodically increase the amounts of coverage required under these insurance policies and/or require different or additional insurance coverages (including reasonable excess liability insurance) at any time. These insurance policies must be purchased from licensed insurers having a rating of "A-/VIII" or higher by the then-current edition of Best Insurance Reports published by A.M. Best Company (or other similar publication or criteria we designate).
Each insurance policy for liability coverage must name us and any affiliates we designate as additional named insureds and provide for thirty (30) days' prior written notice to us of a policy's material modification, cancellation or expiration. Each insurance policy must contain a waiver of all subrogation rights against us, our affiliates and their successors and assigns. You must routinely furnish us copies of your Certificates of Insurance or other evidence of your maintaining this insurance coverage and paying premiums. If you fail or refuse to obtain and maintain the insurance we specify, in addition to our other remedies including termination, we may (but are not required to) obtain such insurance for you and your Business on your behalf, in which event you agree to cooperate with us and reimburse us for all premiums, costs and expenses we incur in obtaining and maintaining the insurance, plus a reasonable fee for our time incurred in obtaining such insurance.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 54)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Clean Your Dirty Face's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean Your Dirty Face has the right to periodically increase the amounts of required insurance coverage. As a franchisee, you must maintain various insurance policies, including comprehensive public liability, general liability, personal injury liability, and other types of insurance that Clean Your Dirty Face requires. These policies must meet the minimum coverage amounts that Clean Your Dirty Face prescribes and have deductibles not exceeding specified amounts.
Clean Your Dirty Face can increase the required coverage amounts or require different or additional insurance coverages, including reasonable excess liability insurance, at any time. The insurance policies must be purchased from licensed insurers with a rating of "A-/VIII" or higher by A.M. Best Company.
The liability coverage must name Clean Your Dirty Face and its designated affiliates as additional insureds and provide 30 days' prior written notice of any material modification, cancellation, or expiration of the policy. Franchisees must provide copies of their Certificates of Insurance to Clean Your Dirty Face. If a franchisee fails to maintain the specified insurance, Clean Your Dirty Face has the option to obtain the insurance on the franchisee's behalf, with the franchisee responsible for reimbursing all premiums, costs, and expenses, plus a reasonable fee for Clean Your Dirty Face's time in obtaining the insurance.