Private House Contents Insurance
Reasons to take out house contents?
In today’s world most households include considerable values such as furniture and fixtures, electrical equipment, clothing, carpets, paintings, jewellery, stocks and bonds, money in cash and many many other assets. As time flies more and more assets accumulate and the importance of financial security for these possessions becomes existential. To protect your belongings you will need sufficient means- one of these is affordable insurance!
Everyone, regardless of age, can suddenly be affected by a loss or damage. Just try to imagine what kind of financial and time-consuming loss even a small fire in your kitchen could cause.
And what many people are not aware of: It not a fire but smoke, smell, contamination and dirt in the entire home, which causes the biggest damages and financial burden.
Taking out the right preventive measures for cases like this will save you from being left empty-handed! This is just one realistic reason to protect your possessions with an affordable house-contents insurance.
General contents insurance covers the following risks
- Fire, Lightning, Explosion
- Housebreaking, Robbery, Vandalism after a housebreaking
- Tapwater, Storm, Hail
Albatross's additional coverage
- Gross negligence
- Valubles up to 10% of the i.s. included
- Surge
- Bicycle theft
- Possessions "out of house" up to 30% of the i.s.
- Implosion
- Theft of garden furniture, garden tools
- Theft of property from a vehicle
- Theft of property from a hospital room
- Theft of property from locked ship cabin
- Theft of prams
- Theft of lining
- Water damages from aquariums / waterbeds
- Accomodation expenses, 150 days max.
- Security service expenses up to 48 hours
- "Return Home" expenses
- Property in safe deposit boxes
- Frozen food
- Uninhabited home possible for up to 6 months
- Scorching
Have you ever heard of underinsurance?
On taking out house contents insurance your prime target is to evaluate all your possessions as accurate as possible to prevent underinsurance in the event of a total-loss but also to avoid paying a too high premium for something you do not have!
But what is underinsurance and how could it affect a reimbursement?
The basic definition: When the insured sum is lower than the total value of your insured contents.
This means that if e.g. you had a total value of 50.000 but insurance for just 30.000 the insurance company would only reimburse 60% as you have underinsured yourself by 40%.
To prevent this from happening you can agree on 650€ per square meter, also known as "waiver of underinsurance". In this case even if you had underinsured your personal belongings you would still get the full insured amount!
3 tariffs to suit everyones need.
Not only does everyone need a different insured sum but also has different expectations and requirements with respect to benefits and additional services. For this reason you may choice between:
- "Optimal" Cover The ideal, most comprehensive insurance cover for your household without compromises.
- "Comfort" Cover A good and solid home contents cover with financial caps on certain benefits.
- "Basic" Cover We cover the general risks and have added just a few benefits.
