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Insurance Tips: How to Make a Home Inventory
About 1 in 20 homes has an insurance claim each year due to damage, theft, or other covered risks according to the Insurance Information Institute. If you have a home insurance claim, creating a home inventory becomes a powerful reference tool that can help expedite...
How Does Coronavirus Affect Your Home Insurance?
How Does Coronavirus Affect Your Home Insurance? With regional flare-ups, new variants of COVID on the rise, and shutdowns keeping many businesses closed, many of us are spending more time at home. You may have wondered how coronavirus affects your insurance coverage,...
Alternative High-Value Home Insurance
Where you live can affect insurability or availability of insurance programs, particularly if you live in an area prone to earthquakes, floods, wildfires, or hurricanes. Prior claims can sometimes affect availability for some insurance programs as well. For example,...
Top Homeowners Insurance Companies in New York for 2021
With mountains, rivers, cities, and beaches, geography in the Empire State is as diverse as New Yorkers themselves. This means needs can vary widely when shopping for homeowners insurance in New York. We selected some of the best NY home insurance companies to help...
5 Best Private Flood Insurance Companies
Flood insurance is often an afterthought, or an option waved off by homeowners when purchasing insurance coverage for their home. However, every year, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) pays nearly 25% of its claims on properties in low risk areas. Nature is...
Flood Insurance Rules and Changes for 2020
FEMA’s new rules for 2020 still provide consumers with more freedom to manage their coverage and choose their preferred provider for flood insurance. A number of new changes accompany an increase in the average cost of flood insurance for consumers covered through the...
Who are Chubb’s Home Insurance Competitors?
Well-known national insurers dominate the home insurance market but specialty insurers that cover high-value homes service a segment of the market that broad-market insurers often can’t address properly. Chubb is among the largest of these high-value home insurers and...
High-Net-Worth Home Insurance – What You Need to Know
With over 5 million high-net-worth individuals and families in the US, specialty insurers have taken notice, bringing a suite of specialized products like high-net-worth homeowners insurance and a bevy of associated coverages, like excess liability coverage to extend liability limits into the millions.
Do you Need Private Client Insurance?
For those who have few or commonly held assets, shopping around for mass-market insurance and finding the lowest price for good coverage is all that is needed. But for those with more or unique assets, it’s more complicated. Mass-market insurers usually limit the...
Mortgage Lenders Required to Accept Private Flood Insurance Coverage
Flood insurance coverage has long been a source of frustration for both insurance agents and homeowners alike, fraught with arcane rules, coverage gaps, low coverage limits, and often large deductibles. Until recently, most flood insurance policies were written...