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Show FJot County Insurance To Cover All Ulfootas "more explicit language" about ab-out the extent of county coverage. cover-age. Com. Harry Gerlach said. AFTER THE bids for insurance insur-ance coverage were opened late last year, there was some question by the commission about whether or not the bidding bid-ding had been fair. They were told by County Clerk Rodney Walker that several sev-eral of the perspective bidders had called for more information informa-tion on the specifics of the coverage. cov-erage. BIT AT the bid opening, none of the company representatives represen-tatives spoke out against what had taken place. At the same time, the commission com-mission voted to have County Atty. Rod Page look at the given bids and compare them to the county's specifications. MR. WALKER announced to the commission Tuesday that Atty. Page had studied the specifications and bids and found them in order. In recent years, the county split the insurance coverage between Schroeder's and Bar-low's. Bar-low's. Schroeder's handled the liability coverage, while Barlow's took care of automobile auto-mobile coverage. By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON Davis County's new liability insurance insur-ance program for employees and county-owned vehicles will cover "anyone who is doing county business," Com. Ernest Eberhard has announced. THE COMMISSION announced Tuesday they will accept a bid of $54,884 from Schroeder's Insurance Co. for the coverage. After narrowing the final bids to Schroeder's and Barlow's Bar-low's Insurance, who submitted submit-ted a $51,201 figure. Com. Harry Gerlach said a decision was made to adopt the higher bid based on five additional coverage factors promised by Schroeder's. THOSE FACTORS are: - The company meets the county's specifications for coverage of both employees and vehicles. SCHROEDER'S has a non-audit non-audit clause. The company cannot audit the costs of insurance insur-ance to the county, then raise the premiums. - Schroeder's provides malpractice mal-practice insurance coverage for county health department personnel. Com. Eberhard noted, however, that the health department doctors will probably want to have some additional malpractice insurance insur-ance for themselves. SCHROEDER'S spells out the specifics of coverage for civil suits and other legal actions. ac-tions. - Schroeder's provides |
