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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
* A maximum 5* Defaqto rating
* £1 million buildings cover if you need to rebuild your home
* £75,000 contents cover as standard (with the option to increase to £100,000)
* We’ll pay to trace the source of a leak and make good any damage caused
* New for old cover on all replaced contents
* One year guarantee on home repairs carried out by insurer-appointed builders
* Tailor your cover by adding optional extras, eg. accidental damage & cover away from the home
* Experienced claims service with UK based staff
The type of cover you can expect to receive is as follows:-
Who are Defaqto?
Defaqto is a leading UK independent financial research company.
They independently rate over 500 car and home insurance policies. Their ratings range from one to five stars. Their Star Ratings are designed to help customers identify where a product or policy sits in the market in terms of the features and benefits it offers and the range of options available. Their in-depth Star Ratings process looks at the key features and benefits of every product or policy they rate.
Defaqto are completely independent and unbiased and never knowingly exclude a product or policy from their Star Ratings.
Why is a Defaqto 5 Star Rating important?
Buying home insurance can be a bit of a minefield, whilst its easy to compare products on price alone, its not always easy to understand what you’re getting for your money until its too late.
Defaqto Star Ratings help you to make informed decisions about getting the cover to suit your needs. A Defaqto 5 Star Rating gives you the reassurance that you’re buying quality cover that will deliver when you need it most.
Defacto Star Ratings Quick Facts (PDF: 561KB)
Buildings Accidental Damage
Included as standard within buildings insurance is accidental breakage to fixed glass and ceramic hobs built into cookers that are permanent fixtures in your home, sanitary fixtures and fittings in your home; and solar panels.
Available as an optional extra is Accidental damage cover. This covers unexpected and unintended damage caused by something sudden and external. Accidental damage would be required in order to claim for events that are not covered under the accidental breakage benefit. An example of this would be putting your foot through a ceiling whilst in the loft where purchasing accidental damage would be required to make a claim.
Contents Accidental Damage
Included as standard within contents insurance is accidental breakage to television sets, satellite receivers or decoders, radios, audio equipment, video-recording equipment, DVD players and games consoles capable of playing DVDs or desktop personal computers. Cover is also provided for fixed glass in furniture (but not glass in pictures or clocks) and ceramic hobs in free-standing cookers.
Available as an optional extra is Accidental damage cover. This covers unexpected and unintended damage caused by something sudden and external. Accidental damage would be required in order to claim for events that are not covered under the accidental breakage benefit. An example of this would be spilling wine on a carpet where purchasing accidental damage would be required to make a claim.
Personal Possessions
Items you take outside your home are not covered automatically for loss, theft or damage by our contents insurance.
If you want to insure everyday items you take outside like mobile phones, watches, jewellery, laptops or pedal cycles you need to add personal belongings cover.
Your personal belongings will be protected anywhere in the European Zone, and for up to 60 days worldwide during any period of cover, so you’d be insured if you went on holiday.
There is a single article limit of £2,000 but individual limits apply for mobile phones (£500), personal money (£750), credit cards (£1,000) and pedal cycles (max any one cycle £1,000).
Items worth over £2,000 (or pedal cycles over £1,000) need to be individually listed. Cover for specified personal belongings is available up to £15,000.
Home Emergency Cover
The Home Emergency Cover product assists you with everyday home emergencies. You contact the Home Emergency team who will then source a tradesman on your behalf from a database of tradespeople, and arrange for them to call.
Uinsure regularly monitor the tradesmen on their database which means that you can rest assured that any work to your property will be carried out to the highest quality.
The policy provides cover up to £300 per claim in the following areas:
• Cover costs of the following household emergencies:
• Burst pipes or sudden leakage likely to cause damage to the Home or its contents.
• Accidental Damage, Break-in or Vandalism to external locks, doors or windows which compromises the security of the Home.
• Pest Infestation. Removal of wasp nests, field and house mice and brown rats within the home.
• Failure of your domestic water mains supply, gas supply, electricity, blockage or breaking or flooding of drains or sewers, or failure of your domestic hot water heating that is likely to cause internal water damage.
• A leakage caused by a smashed toilet bowl or cistern. Breakage of the cistern internal mechanism which prevents flushing and creates an emergency if there is no other toilet in the home.
• Lost Key where the only available Key to the Home has been lost, in order to gain normal access to the home.
Uinsure Home Emergency Insurance (PDF: 165KB)
Family Legal Expenses
Uinsure’s Family Legal Protection policy is designed to help customers through difficult and often stressful legal situations by providing them with financial support and a 24-hour legal advice Helpline. The policy also provides access to discounted uninsured legal services such as wills and conveyancing.
By simply adding Legal Protection to the existing household policy gives you peace of mind knowing that if a legal problem occurs, panel solicitors will support you through the process by giving expert assistance on the best way to resolve your claim.
The policy provides cover up to £50,000 for professional fees in the following areas:
• Pursuit of civil claims for personal injury or death
• Pursuit of consumer disputes relating to goods or services
• Pursuit of contract of employment disputes
• Property Disputes
• Property Damage
Uinsure Family Legal Protection Insurance (PDF: 189KB)
Eligibility
Eligibility Criteria
You have confirmed the following statements to be correct to the best of your knowledge and belief:
• The walls of your property are built from brick (which includes brick clad with timber frame properties built from 1980 onwards), stone or concrete (excluding prefabricated concrete).
• The roof of your property is built from slate or tiles.
• The roof of your property is no more than 30% flat.
• The property to be insured is not registered as a listed building.
• The property is permanently occupied by only you and your family.
• The property is not to be used for business or professional purposes, other than clerical work undertaken by you and your family.
• There must be no customers or suppliers calling at your property and there must be no storage of trade goods, other than stationary for your own use.
• The property is not left unoccupied for more than 60 consecutive days.
• Your property will be maintained in a good state of repair.
• Your property is not undergoing any building work.
• The property has not shown any signs of subsidence, heave or landslip within the last 25 years. (Cracks and bulges in the walls can be signs of subsidence).
• To the best of your knowledge the property has no history of flooding.
• You have never undertaken preventative measures to limit flooding.
• You and anyone residing at your property have not had special terms imposed by your insurer, or had insurance declined, cancelled, refused or declared void.
• During the last 3 years, at your current or any previous address, you and anyone residing at your property have not had more than one household (buildings or contents or personal belongings) loss or claim.
• During the last 3 years, at your current or any previous address, you and anyone residing at your property have not had more than one household (buildings or contents or personal belongings) loss or claim costing more than £3,000.
• You and anyone residing at your property have not been convicted or charged for any offence or have any prosecution pending (other than a motoring offence).
UINSURE POLICY DOCUMENTS
Uinsure Policy Wording (PDF: 901KB)