Insurance for water damage in your home is often part of your general homeowners policy. Your insurance may cover losses that are due to a pipe that burst or an appliance that leaks, but may not if you are exposed to a flood, tornado or hurricane.

For this kind of coverage you will need a separate policy. Unfortunately, many homeowners recognize this way too late. You can choose how much coverage you purchase, but do get the extra coverage. (more…)

When you bought a residential property, the financing bank will require you to insure the building at least with a basic Fire Insurance policy to protect the bank interest as well as you the owner’s interest. Fire use to pose the highest treats for property insurance as every year, billions of dollars has been lost due to fire damage. However, in recent years, due to climatic changes which caused the occurrence of many naturally disasters in many parts of the world and destroyed billions worth of properties and death of many lives, people are more conscious on many others perils or risks that can damage or destroy that property other than fire.

A basic fire insurance policy will not compensate the owner in the event of any damages done due to the perils other than fire, so in order to protect your property again all these natural and man made disasters. You need to arrange a more comprehensive insurance policy to properly protect your property again all these risks. There are insurance companies which package many of their perils with fire policy to provide their policy holder a wider and more comprehensive cover and protect than just fire damage. Some of the perils include;

1. Earthquake and Volcanic eruption
2. Windstorm damage
3. Flood
4. Water Damage due to bursting of domestic water tank, apparatus and pipe
5. Riot, strike and civil commotion
6. Malicious damage
7. Impact damage by vehicle
8. Aerial damage
9. House breaking and theft
10. Bush and forest fire, etc etc (more…)

With the average price of a laptop computer being anywhere from £300-£400 for a minimum performance personal laptop to £1,200 to £3,500 for a high performance computer, or £3,000 to £10,000 for a gaming laptop, did you consider insuring your laptop? What do you need to know before buying laptop insurance?

Did you know that you can insure your laptop against theft, accidental damage, and malicious damage. You’re going to invest a lot of your money in a laptop. Did you ever consider laptop insurance? (more…)

Property and casualty insurance take care of most risks to an individual or a business’s property, like damage, theft, losing money, records, furniture, machinery, trademarks and supplies as well. Some examples of specialized insurance policies that are currently available cover disasters such as fires, earthquakes, and floods that damage your primary residence.

Property can be insured either by multiple or named dangers. You have to identify exactly what you have lost. One example of this is if your house burned down, you would only be able to make a claim under “named peril property insurance” if you had explicitly requested to insure your house against a fire. Other perils commonly covered are explosion, lightning, and theft. You should consider all problems that are part of your insurance plan. If not, you might be paying for insurance that would not aid you in case your car is stolen. (more…)

Although vacant properties attract undue attention from thieves and vandalism the vacant property insurance policy is much lower than a normal home insurance policy. This is because most insurance companies find vacant property rife with possibilities of theft, fire, floods etc. Similarly a storm could burst the pipes causing water to flood in the vacant house.

With vacant property insurance your vacant property is insured against such contingencies. However before you sign the policy papers you should check that vandalism is mentioned in it. If at all it is not, then including it could raise the cost of the insurance premium.

Although the competition among insurance companies is huge, there are very few that offer vacant property insurance policies. This is one reason why premiums for the policy are high; however there are a few tips that will help reduce the cost.

* You should check with atleast 3 other insurance companies and get quotes regarding the premium you will need to pay. This is essential since every insurance company is not the same, getting the best by shopping around will help you choose the one with lesser premium. (more…)

Insurance for unoccupied property in the UK is definitely very different from the standard home or building insurance policy. It is a non-standard type of insurance as the UK companies that make such insurances take into an account various circumstances. Often people might get surprised when they find that their ordinary home insurance policy does not cover the situation when the property has no occupant.

One of the first questions that arise in the process of getting an insurance policy for such type of property is for how long the property is supposed to be unoccupied. This depends mostly on the reason why the property is considered unoccupied.

Such reasons might be: the building might be empty because it is in a probate, the owner renovates it in order to sell it, there might be some construction works that expand the house, the house is prepared for tenants or the property is bought as a vacation or holiday home.

The majority of these reasons require a cover for a short period (no more than 30 days) and this is the most wanted type of unoccupied home insurances in UK. After that period the insurance usually could be transformed into a normal building insurance if the house gets occupied. (more…)

It is understood that owners of let property require a unique level of cover.

The following paragraphs highlight the features and benefits that you might well expect to find in a landlord insurance policy. In many cases these features are not covered in standard household insurance policies.

Multi property cover: The ability to cover multiple properties under one policy. 90 day cover: Full cover for up to 90 days if properties are furnished but unoccupied between lets or before the start of the first let.

Legal expense cover: To assist with the costs that might arise following disputes with tenants; to defend legal action that might be taken against a landlord by tenants; or to evict squatters.

Legal expenses cover can also include cover for costs involved in staying in alternative accommodation. (more…)