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What does this policy cover?
High Value Household insurance policies are specialised bespoke policies for homeowners with requirements that extend beyond what standard household insurances can offer. Whether that is because there are higher sums insured for buildings, contents and valuables required, high value profiles or preference for superior coverage and service, these policies offer the best solution and most comprehensive protection available. As premium insurance products, they offer tailored coverage to meet the unique requirements of each client, ensuring exceptional protection and peace of mind.
These policies are designed to cover you for all of your household requirements, from your main home’s buildings, contents and valuables, with options to extend cover to include motor fleet, travel, second homes and your various liabilities as a homeowner.
The starting levels of cover for these policies are:
Buildings
All permanent structures, including, but not limited to, the main building, outbuildings, driveways, fences & gates. The sum insured is based on the reinstatement value of all of these, which must include all demolition costs, materials & professional fees. Generally, the minimum sum insured for a high value home policy is £750k.
General Contents
This coverage includes all items that would typically be taken with you when moving home, and also including all carpets, curtains, enhanced lighting fittings, shoes, handbags, gardening equipment pedal cycles, sports equipment etc.
It is important to note that this section of cover does not include jewellery, watches, artwork, antiques & collections, which must be listed separate on a high value home policy.
We recommend conducting a thorough inventory of your property on a room-by room basis, carefully evaluating every item. The contents covered by your insurance policy are based on ‘new for old’ cover; therefore, it is essential that you take care to estimate what items would cost to replace at today’s prices.
The starting sum insured on a high value home policy is £100k.
Valuables – Jewellery, Watches, Artwork, Antiques & Collections
These policies offer worldwide cover for all valuables in your possession, from paintings and sculptures, jewellery and watches, and collections from wine & guns to comic books and antiques.
Valuations on such items is something that sees frequent fluctuation in the market, and we would always advise the most accurate sums will be provided by professional valuers. We work closely with the most widely respected professionals in the UK to ensure you will always have access to the required services.
Your Liabilities as a Homeowner
All policies we recommend include your liabilities as a homeowner as standard, ensuring you, your family and domestic employees are covered for any legal liabilities arising from the ownership of the property.
Legal Expenses
The Legal Expenses cover on our high value home policies offer you a range of legal help and support for areas such as employment and contract disputes, and property and tax protection, as well as a free to use legal helpline for advice.
Home Emergency
This provides all policy holders with 24 hour access to home emergency services in the event of a sudden or unforeseen breakdown of equipment such as boilers.
Optional additional covers
These policies can also be extended to include:
Travel
An enhanced policy not generally available to the open market, including extended cancellation & curtailment limits, higher baggage cover and longer trip durations as standard.
High Value Motor
Designed to cater for vehicles valued at over £50,000, or fleets including luxury, performance or high end vehicles. Much as the high value home offers enhanced household cover, this offers enhanced motor coverage such as agreed value cover, extended European travel, optional any driver cover, and high end courtesy cars.
Holiday & Second Homes
If you have more than one home, these policies are designed to take a portfolio approach to ensuring that all of your assets have the same level of superior coverage, along with the convenience of all being handled by one insurer, with one renewal date, and one expert broker point of contact in Ellis David.
Benefits of a High Value Home Insurance v Standard Household
As household, cars and possessions begin to increase in value, standard insurances available online no longer become appropriate, due to restricted levels of cover, lower limits and service issues. This is where bespoke high value home policies offer a far more appropriate and superior level of cover:
- Bespoke policy tailored to your individual requirements
- Far higher limits within policy wordings
- All risks cover as opposed to specified perils
- Worldwide cover as standard for contents and valuables
- Bespoke claims services
- Guaranteed/extended replacement costs
What Ellis David provide to our clients
How we help
From day one, a member of our experience team will be your direct point of contact, who will be able to assess your personal circumstances, make appropriate recommendations for suitable coverage, as well as helping recommend steps you can take to protect yourself.
Comprehensive panel of insurers
We are frequently assessing all the insurers we recommend ensuring that each policy offered will provide you with high levels of cover, expert claims service and based on strong relationships with the underwriters we trust.
Ongoing commitment
As a client of Ellis David, your relationship with us isn’t limited to the renewal. We are here for you throughout the year to offer advice, whether it be a specific query, i there are any precautions we can recommend helping protect you and your assets, or whether it is to update the policy to account for relevant changes such as new purchases, renovations or claims advise.
Trusted partner network
Over many years in the industry, we have cultivated a list of professionals our clients have used to safeguard them and their assets comprehensively, from surveys, valuers and antiques experts to security specialists, mortgage providers and leak detection companies.
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