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House Fire in the log house How the home insurance?
We had a fire in my log home last week, the fire was extinguished by the firefighters, but the house has a lot of water damage, seems to have a lot of insurance, the building has 400 K to 320 K and paid coverage of the house makes 3 years. However, the policy has a location Log Construction of exclusion "This building is both the approval of registration 44 (Guarantee of replacement cost) and support 78 (single amount of insurance) are excluded, "Could someone explain this exclusion
An on normal policy will be a limit for the construction / housing, which represents the majority of the insurer will pay the reconstruction of the house. The reconstruction problem is the increase in construction costs, and in some cases can vary greatly within a year. So the limit was appropriate at the beginning of term of the policy may not be sufficient to cover the cost of rebuilding the house six months in politics. So once a time when an insurance company came up the idea of offering a guarantee to ensure the insurer shall pay the cost of rebuilding the house, even if the costs are more than the limit of the policy (now each insurer offers this to be competitive). The only important condition is that the house was insured for its full replacement value at the time of the application (or renewal), whose value is determined by various programs that pass the insurers and brokers / agents use. In this way the customer no longer has to worry about if your limit is sufficient to reconstruct the house. The problem with wooden houses is that it is pretty near impossible to determine how much the reconstruction of one without having to hire a contractor to build a reality and then report how much it cost. Since there is no program out there that can estimate exactly how much reconstruction of a log home very few, if any, the insurer is willing to provide the guaranteed replacement cost in the building. That means it costs more than $ 400,000 to rebuild the house (which pays for it does not indicate what the replacement cost is because they have to take debris removal and site / foundation preparation) the insurer will not pay more than the policy limit, which means to be responsible for no more than that. Regarding the approval, 78 the vast majority Homeowners policies have separate limits for: 1. Building 2. independent private structures (detached garages, sheds, gazebos, etc.), 3. personal property, and 4. additional living expenses (the extra costs inherent in the home should be damaged by a peril covered by the policy and uninhabitable). Some policies have a limit for all four elements (usually calculated as the construction of two times the limit). This is usually done if you have a customer who not independent of the private structures and / or personal property limit is well above the replacement value of its contents. The theory is the limit which are not used or used under a cover can be used to increase the coverage of others. So the limit to be provided to separate private structures instead be used to boost the limit of their additional costs. The insurer has excluded the support of its policy because of a single limit is a way for an agent to ensure a smart client that does not qualify for guaranteed replacement cost may have some additional coverage if the limit is insufficient for building even the limit for the other three elements is excessive. The insurer insists that will not seem to pay more than the policy limit to rebuild the house.
