A client of ours in Wellington has been/is going through the exhausting and stressful process of claiming for the damage caused to his house by the Kaikoura earthquakes in November 2016. The latest event is that he wanted to make sure that his heritage home was properly insured, and wanted to increase the cover, in…
As someone who has lived down the end of a shared driveway for over 22 years, this article in the NZ Herald caught my attention. I have confirmed the situation with our Fire and General insurance broker, and they said: All non EQC cover natural disaster claims have an excess of $5000. Type of…
Fire and General insurance (that is insurance on houses, contents, vehicles, boats, professional indemnity, public liability insurance) is something that we don’t know a lot about here. We can answer any question that you have about insurance on you as a person (life, trauma, income protection, mortgage repayment, health insurance etc), but not about fire…