Property News · July 29, 2013

Home insurance: an ill wind blows off both a roof and a policy claim


A policyholder’s claim was rejected when the damage to her garage roof was not caused by ‘a storm’When Carol Milward’s garage roof blew off she assumed that her insurers would pay for the damage – so it came as a shock when the claim was rejected on the grounds the wind that did the damage was 2mph too slow to be classified as a “storm”.The total claim value with RIAS was around £650. “But they said they only paid out for storm damage for winds of 47mph or above,” says Naomi Milward, 42, who challenged the insurer on behalf of her mother, 69, from the village of Bacton, Suffolk. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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