July 28th is National Insurance Awareness Day

July 28th is National Insurance Awareness Day

July 28th is a very important day in the insurance world – and it’s one that we encourage you to observe! It’s National Insurance Awareness Day. Okay, okay, we get that insurance might not be the most exciting thing in the entire world. You might wonder why you should care about a day devoted to insurance of all things. While the Fourth of July might be a tad bit more exciting, that doesn’t mean National Insurance Awareness Day should be overlooked.

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If you don't meet your lender's insurance requirements, you could end up with force-placed home insurance.

What is force-placed home insurance?

Getting a mortgage and being a homeowner can get complicated. There are a lot of details (and a lot of paperwork) that go into buying a home…and one of those things is home insurance. See, if you have a mortgage, you may be required to carry certain levels of insurance for your house (call it a caveat.) If you don’t get the necessary coverage, you might get stuck with force-placed home insurance. What’s force-placed home insurance? We’ll explain.

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There are many insurance policies that you might want to consider to protect your family.

10 insurance policies you might not have – but that you should think about

Life doesn’t always go as planned. And that’s why they invented insurance. Your home insurance policy will protect you from a financial loss if something happens to your home and it will cover your legal liability for many situations. But there are certain things that home insurance simply doesn’t account for. Check out the following insurance policies that you might not have – but that you might need.

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If you have a trampoline at home, trampoline safety is a must.

10 simple tips for trampoline safety at home

Trampolines can provide hours of entertainment. Kids love them and could probably bounce all day if you let them. For some reason, jumping up and down never gets old. But trampolines aren’t necessarily the safest activity for kids. In fact, the risk of injury (strains, sprains, broken bones, fractures, and head injuries) is so great that the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against allowing youngsters to bounce on trampolines. But if you have a trampoline or you’re going to get one, there are a few trampoline safety tips you should follow to reduce the risk of someone getting hurt.

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You need to check and see how your insurance company will handle a trampoline.

Will a trampoline affect my home insurance?

There’s something about trampolines that is irresistible to kids. And it makes sense – what kid wouldn’t want to touch the sky while bouncing merrily on a spring-loaded surface? But before you give in to the kids’ puppy-dog eyes and begging, you also have to consider your home insurance and how your insurance company will react to a new trampoline.

Unlike kids, home insurance companies typically aren’t crazy about trampolines. There’s a good reason for this: bouncing, while fun, is not without risk – of the broken bone and concussion variety. The chances that someone, perhaps an innocent, unsupervised neighborhood kid, could stumble upon your trampoline and promptly proceed to crash are too high.

So, we’ll go over what you need to do where your home insurance is concerned if your kids really, really want that new trampoline.

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Take some time to prevent storm damage to your home this summer.

13 tips to prevent storm damage to your home this summer

With summer here, your thoughts might be focused on vacation, time off work, and fun in the sun. But there’s something else that we should all put some effort into – preventing storm damage from summer thunderstorms. Strong winds and heavy rains can wreak havoc on your house, but you can outsmart Mother Nature with the following tips.

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Your credit score can have an effect on your home insurance.

How to get home insurance if you have bad credit

Your credit score is way more than just a number. It can make a difference to a lot of things that you might not expect it to…and one of those things is your home insurance rates. Sometimes it can be hard to find home insurance if you have a bad score, and sometimes it means you’re looking at a higher rate. If you’re worried that your credit score is making it difficult to find affordable home insurance, we’ll explain why your credit score matters to your home insurance and how you can get reasonably priced home insurance with less-than-ideal credit.

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If you have water damage in your home, your insurance may or may not cover it.

What kinds of water damage are covered by home insurance?

It’s every homeowner’s worst nightmare: the basement is underwater. Something has gone horribly, horribly wrong, and now you have a swimming pool inside your house. Well, you always wanted a swimming pool, but this isn’t quite what you had in mind. Anyways, now you have a question: what types of water damage are covered by home insurance?

Let’s find out what kind of water damage your home insurance protects you from.

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A roof leak caused by sudden damage will most likely be covered by homeowners insurance.

Does home insurance cover a roof leak and roof replacement?

Hey, that’s weird…why’s it raining inside? Unless this is some sort of elaborate practical joke, you’re pretty sure that there shouldn’t be a puddle in the middle of the living room floor. Or water dripping onto your head. Anyways, there’s water where it shouldn’t be and you think a roof leak is to blame. Now the burning question (or soggy question) is does home insurance cover a new roof? And how can you tell if your roof is actually leaking? (Not all leaks are caused by a roof problem.) Well, we’ve got the answer to those questions, coming right up.

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