Tag: home theft

Top home break-in prevention tips for the holiday shopping season

Julie Campbell
Home break-in prevention - Burglar

Thieves are looking for homes when people aren’t there but their expensive gifts and electronics are. With the holiday shopping season well underway, home break-in prevention becomes more important than it is at many other times of the year. Thieves know that many of us travel during this season, we stay out late attending parties, and we make major purchases for great gifts under the tree. In order to keep that festive feeling and protect yourself from break-ins and theft, prevention is necessary. Home break-in prevention can help you from…

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Could Insurers Refuse Payment for Unlocked Homes?

Guest Author
home security cybersecurity insurance industry

If you’re leaving your home for just a few minutes, it can be tempting to not bother to lock up while you pop over to the store or collect the kids from school. However, literally anything can happen in that period, and a recent rise in the number of insecurity burglaries—thefts from unlocked homes—could eventually mean that any subsequent insurance claim becomes invalid. Stretched Resources All across the world, police forces have their resources stretched by local crime, and one unit in the UK is clearly getting tired of dealing…

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