If your renters or
homeowners insurance company excludes your dog from liability coverage, you might be able to get him covered by purchasing an umbrella liability policy.
Not exact matches
Even the top
companies frequently
exclude this coverage from renters and
homeowners insurance policies (it's also not covered by flood
insurance).
Officials from the home offices of State Farm, Allstate and Travelers, three of the nation's top providers of
homeowners»
insurance, say their
companies have no national policy
excluding coverage for pit - bull owners.
I was surprised to discover that about one third of all
homeowner claims involve dog bites so
companies are beginning to refrain from selling
insurance to households with dogs or to persons who have certain breeds of dogs, or they are starting to
exclude damages from dog bites from their coverage altogether.
Just because you have a dog that's on one
company's
excluded dogs list does not mean that there aren't other
companies that would be willing to take your
homeowner's
insurance policy.
«Some
companies will write the
homeowners insurance but specifically
exclude the dog in the policy,» she says.