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Home insurance can protect you from financial risk if your home is damaged or destroyed and can also cover your home’s contents if they are damaged, lost or stolen. You can take out cover for specific listed events only or for wider accidental damage cover, depending on your needs.
If your home and its contents were damaged or destroyed in a natural disaster or accident, or all your valuables were stolen, could you afford to replace them?
Home & contents insurance can even protect you against legal liability if someone is injured or killed on your property.
| Potential benefits | |
| Choice of Three level of covers | Accidental Damage; Listed Events; Listed Events Base |
| A safeguard of up to 30% extra of your total sum insured, so you can feel confident you won’t be caught short if you have to rebuild (does not apply to base listed events policy). | Cover for accidental breakages, damage caused by falling trees during a storm or the impact of a car. |
| Automatic cover for flood and cover for fire or explosion. | Automatic inflation adjustment to your buildings and contents sum insured. |
| Electrical Motor Burnout | Up to 15 years Old |
| Cover for earthquake, tsunami, lightning strikes, storm, rainwater, hail and wind and water damage from certain leakages. | An extra 20% of your total sum insured to cover accommodation costs, if you need to move out while your home is being repaired or rebuilt. |
| Cover for burglary or theft, caused by a forced break-in and vandalism or malicious damage. | Environmental upgrade cover – up to $5,000, and extra costs of rebuilding to meet statutory requirements – up to $25,000. |
| Jewellery and Watches, Items containing Silver or Gold, or collections of Stamps, Money or Medals – Cover can be extended by listing the item as a Specified personal valuable item | Depending of Level of Cover Select – Can be up to $10,000 per item, set or collection and up to 25% of the contents sum insured. |
| Liability cover of up to $30 million for injury or loss of life to a third party, or loss of a third party’s property on a building you occupy or own. | Catastrophe cover up to an additional 30% of the building sum insured, for declared natural disasters. |
Each policy is different, but generally you won’t be covered:
There are other exclusions which your insurance broker can outline for you.
Michael’s family home and all its contents were severely damaged by floodwaters.
His home Insurance policy included automatic cover for flood, so it covered the costs of repairing the damage that floodwaters had done to the walls and floors of his home.
It also covered the cost of replacing his furniture and white goods. And, because he and had to move out while his home was being repaired, his policy took care of the costs of living in rental accommodation during this time.
Important note – the information provided here is general advice only and had been prepared without taking into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. A product disclosure statement (PDS) is available from your insurance broker. You should consider the PDS in deciding whether to acquire, or continue to hold, business insurance.
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