Difference in Conditions insurance adds or broadens first-party or third-party protections that are absent from the primary property policy, usually by filling coverage gaps.
It is often packaged as an all-risk form layered above standard policies, but exclusions still apply.
Underwriting and policy design
Insurers position DIC with specific endorsements describing exactly which exclusions are added back and which claim conditions remain excluded to avoid duplicate recovery.
Example
If a primary policy excludes certain equipment loss, a DIC layer may pay for that equipment when the cause of loss matches the DIC wording.