Tag: winter home insurance

Insurers offer timely advice to help prevent winter home insurance claims

G. Turner
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As the weather gets much colder, storms and below-freezing temperatures come with certain risks. To start the year off on a positive note, insurers are sharing tips and strategies with policyholders to help them to prevent having to make winter home insurance claims. Damage and liability from storms, high winds, and freezing temperatures are often avoidable. Insurance Information Institute data showed that last year, there were $2.1 billion in winter home insurance claims caused by storms from this time of the year. That said, if policyholders had all taken certain…

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Homeowners insurance tips for winter claims prevention issued by industry

Julie Campbell
homeowners insurance tips

A video featuring “Uncle Insurance” is the next in the series to help to avoid damage and claims. As wintery weather becomes more visible, the industry is renewing its previous reminder of the many homeowners insurance tips that are available to help to winterize a home and prevent damage from freezing temperatures, snow, and ice. Although the best time to prepare the house is ahead of the lousy weather, these changes are better done late than never. Many meteorologists – and The Old Farmer’s Almanac, for that matter – are…

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