Understanding Insurance
Property is usually valued at tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars
. Having such a high worth means it has to be protected from any accidents, and fire is just one of them. A fire insurance policy is one that promises to cover the cost of the property within a predefined timeframe. Fire insurance as a topic cannot be wholly understood in one day, and this text hopes to shine a little light on the topic.First thing you need to know is that there are differences in fire insurance policies. They each have different extents of coverage and as a result, require different amounts as premiums. The best way to distinguish the different kinds of claims is with the compensation methods. Some of them take to compensating the amount directly proportional to the damage caused by the fire. The others take to covering the costs of replacement for the property brought down by the fire. If your cover included your personally belongings, these are replaced too. How much or how little this is, is determined by the loss assessor.
When a fire brings down your property, you should file a fire insurance claim with the company immediately. If this is not possible, try to make it sooner than five days after the fire. Upon receipt of your claim the insurance company will send someone to assess the damage, and come up with a rough figure depicting the cost. Because they cannot accurately determine the worth of your belongings with a simple after-fire inspection, you should take some pictures and videos of your home, and have them stored with a relative or a friend.
Written inventory does not suffice since false information can be documented. But a picture does not lie, and neither does a video. If you take pictures, make sure you get the angles just right. It's advised that you supplement this with a video compilation for every room in the house. This makes the process of establishing the cost of damage relatively easy, since there is a reference point. When all the details are taken care of, then you are compensated, or your house is rebuilt.
It is possible to make the premiums much more affordable by taking precautionary measures to reduce the risk of a fire. Having fire fighting equipment, sprinklers and fire alarms helps reduce the premiums to a range that's affordable, more so if your cover is extended.
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