A dry cleaner ruins a customer's coat. Under the no benefit to bailee condition, the cleaner:
Explanation
The condition states that the insurance gives no benefit to any person or organization holding, storing or moving the property for a fee. So the insurer may pay its own insured for the coat and then subrogate against the cleaner, whose own liability coverage is meant to answer for the damage. Treating a bailee as an insured or a loss payee would let the responsible party hide behind the customer's policy.
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