Home Insurance

Pays for property damage and injury costs to others on your property or adjacent and for legal defense costs due to getting sued.

Similarly to personal liability, medical payments pays for medical bills for those who are injured on your property. Hence, the difference is the medical payment limit will be used before the personal liability limit. In fact, the personal limit may not be used at all unless the injured sues the insured.

This Pays for damages to someone's name including:

• Defamation of name
• False arrest
• Libel
• Malicious prosecution
• Publication that violate's privacy
• Slander
• Wrongful conviction

Protects your home business from liability charges. Examples of a home businesses could include daycare, renting out a second home, and dog sitting.

This includes your home and anything attached to it. The cost to reconstruct it is the dwelling limit. Therefore, it includes electrical wiring, plumbing, and anything else needed to duplicate the structure. It is also the value insurance companies use for your home. So, the dwelling cost can vary greatly from the market value (how much you bought your home for). 

Examples of attachments: Attached garage, awning, ceiling fan, towel bar, mirrors.

This includes any structures not attached to the home. It may include a driveway, fence, and shed.

This is an extra coverage you can endorse onto your policy.

Example: If your current home’s reconstruction cost is $300,000, and you had this endorsement at 25%, then the insurance company would pay up to $375,000 (300,000 x (1 + 25%)). You would want this because the original estimate was enough for your home.

Additionally, you can add ordinances & laws for the replacement cost.  Regular home insurance doesn’t cover the extra cost to build your home up to code. As a result, insurance would not cover those extra costs. This is a valuable endorsement to have if you have an older home.

This applies to the roof and sides and is not normally included in home insurance. If hail hit half your roof and damaged only 1/4 of it, then the matching endorsement would pay to replace the whole roof instead of just the 1/4 that was damaged.

• Accidental discharge of water or steam
• Air-Conditioning
• Aircraft
• Burglary Damage
• Civil Commotion
• Collapse
• Electric
• Electrical Current
• External and Internal Explosion
• Falling Objects
• Fire
• Freeze
• Glass Breakage
• Hail
• Heating
• Lightning
• Malicious Mischief
• Plumbing
• Riot
• Sleet and Snow
• Smoke
• Sudden tearing
• Vandalism
• Vehicles
• Volcanic Eruption
• Wind
• Weight of Ice

Add the special coverage endorsement to get your personal property coverage to include all perils except for:

• aircraft
• earthquake
• flood
• governmental
• seizure
• intentional loss
• nuclear
• ordinance or law
• war

Actual cash value is the value and method used to replace your personal property. The insurance company inventories your lossed personal property and calculates the current value of it (Purchase Price – Depreciation).

This is a coverage you can have instead of actual cash value. Instead of the insurance company only paying the depreciated value of your personal property they will pay the amount it would cost to replace your personal property today.

You can create limits on specific types of items. For example, jewelery, art, firearms, etc. This ensures that the insurance company will pay for a specific group of items on top of paying a general sum of everything which may not add up to the cost to replace your special items.

From Sewer backup to water leakage, water damage can create a whole lot of problems.

Any damage from a flood or water coming in from the side walls would be covered by flood insurance.

This pays for the cost to replace or fix the sudden breakdown of specific equipment in the home. The Equipment Breakdown includes items such as the washer, dryer, dish washer, oven, water heater, refrigerator, air-conditioner, and heater.

Damages caused by utility companies are covered through this endorsement. This can include electrical, gas, and water. Different insurance carriers have different variations of this endorsement.