Gerri Willis’ mid-September Five Tips columns revolved around five tips for sorting out your home insurance claim and for anyone who has never gone through this, it’s important for you to understand these tips before you need to - here is the fourth tip.
Tip #5: Don’t give up
Even after your insurance company pays out, it [...]
Gerri Willis’ mid-September Five Tips columns revolved around five tips for sorting out your home insurance claim and for anyone who has never gone through this, it’s important for you to understand these tips before you need to - here is the fourth tip.
Tip #4: Consider an independent adjuster
Before you start the claims adjustment process, [...]
Gerri Willis’ mid-September Five Tips columns revolved around five tips for sorting out your home insurance claim and for anyone who has never gone through this, it’s important for you to understand these tips before you need to - here is the third tip.
Tip #3: Sort and document
Documentation is the cornerstone to any financial dealing [...]
As if you needed me to say so but according to Bankrate’s records, eight of the ten most expensive catastrophes, from a property and business loss perspective, were hurricanes and six of those eight occurred in the last five years! Only two of the hurricanes were from earlier, Andrew in 1992 and Hugo in 1989. [...]
Gerri Willis’ mid-September Five Tips columns revolved around five tips for sorting out your home insurance claim and for anyone who has never gone through this, it’s important for you to understand these tips before you need to - here is the second tip.
Tip #2: Assess wind versus water damage
As you may remember in the [...]
Gerri Willis’ mid-September Five Tips columns revolved around five tips for sorting out your home insurance claim and for anyone who has never gone through this, it’s important for you to understand these tips before you need to - here is the first tip.
Tip #1: Understand the basics
This is something that you have to do [...]
I, like the author, thought that California or Florida would be tops on the list of most expensive states to purchase home insurance, but we were both wrong - Texas is the highest at an average premium of $1,238 according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Second and third on the list [...]
Unfortunately, sometimes an event will occur that your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance won’t cover (say flood damage if you don’t have separate flood insurance or a jewelry theft without the necessary jewelry riders) and in those cases there may be a way for you to recover part of the financial impact. If there was a [...]