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SECTION V – DEFINITIONS <br />1. “Defense expenses” mean payments allocated to a specific claim or “suit” for its investigation, <br />settlement, or defense, including: <br />a.Attorney fees and all other litigation expenses; <br />b.The cost of bonds to release attachments, but only for bond amounts within the <br />applicable Limit of Insurance; <br />c.The approved Claims Organization service expenses or fees; <br />d.All court costs taxed against the insured in the claim or “suit”. However, these payments <br />do not include attorneys’ fees or attorneys’ expenses taxed against the insured; <br />e.Prejudgment interest awarded against the insured on that part of the judgment you pay <br />within the applicable self insured retention; <br />f. All interest on the full amount of any judgment that accrues after entry of the judgment <br />and before you have paid, offered to pay, or deposited in court the part of the judgment <br />that is within the applicable self-insured retention; and <br />g. Any amount under Paragraph A. 2. of SECTION I-COVERAGES. <br />“Defense expenses” do not include normal operating expenses, salaries or expenses of our <br />employees or your employees. <br />2. “Hazardous properties” includes radioactive, toxic or explosive properties. <br />3. "First underlying insurance" means the policy listed in the Declarations under the schedule of <br />“underlying insurance” as the "first underlying insurance". <br />4. "Occurrence" as defined in the “first underlying insurance” applies to this insurance, whether <br />described as an “occurrence”, injury, accident, offense, act, incident, error, omission, event or <br />wrongful act. <br />5. “Other insurance” means insurance which is available to any insured and covers injury or <br />damage to which this insurance applies, other than: <br />a. “Underlying insurance”; or <br />b. Insurance which is specifically purchased by you to be excess of the insurance afforded <br />by this insurance. <br />6. “Nuclear facility” means: <br />a.Any nuclear reactor; <br />b.Any equipment or device designed or used for (i) separating the isotopes of uranium or <br />plutonium, (ii) processing or utilizing “spent fuel”, or (iii) handling, processing or <br />packaging “nuclear waste”; <br />c.Any equipment or device used for the processing, fabricating, or alloying of “special <br />nuclear material” if at any time the total amount of such material in the Insured’s custody <br />at the premises where such equipment or device is located consists of or contains more <br />than 25 grams of plutonium or uranium 233 or any combination thereof, or more than 250 <br />grams of uranium 235; <br />d.Any structure, basin, excavation, premises or place prepared or used for storage or <br />disposal of “nuclear waste”, and includes the site on which any of the foregoing is <br />located, all operations conducted on such site and all premises used for such operations, <br />and includes the site on which any of the foregoing is located, all operations conducted on <br />such site and all premises used for such operations. <br />7.“Nuclear material” means “source material”, “special nuclear material” or “by-product <br />material”. <br />8. “Nuclear reactor” means any apparatus designed or used to sustain nuclear fission in a self- <br />supporting chain reaction or to contain a critical mass of fissionable material. <br />EUM 00 522 02 07© Everest Reinsurance Company, 2006Page 7 of 8 <br />Includes copyrighted material of ISO Properties, Inc., used with its <br />permission <br />INSURED COPY <br /> <br />