Will having supplemental homeowners insurance cover my deductible?

onebigfool asked:


If I buy supplemental homeowners insurance will it cover my $1000 deductible I have to pay now? Say I have $3000 worth of damage. My current insurance only pays $2000 because I owe the $1000 per claim. But if I had another homeownwers policy couldn’t I file a claim with them too?

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src50 October 28, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Exactly what kind of “supplemental homeowners insurance” are you talking about?

mbrcatz17 October 28, 2008 at 8:00 pm

When you say “supplemental homeowners insurance”, what do you mean? There’s no policy that covers a deductible.

If you have two homeowners policies, they share the loss. You will have a deductible on both of them. Each policy describes exactly how it shares a loss with another policy.

The REASON you have a deductible, is so that you can’t file little claims. The rate on that first $1,000 of coverage would be darned close to $1,000, if not over it. The POINT, is to give you incentives to NOT have a loss.

It’s not going to work that way. You won’t find someone to give you a policy for $1,000 or even $5,000 of coverage.

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