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Understanding your needs
Where appropriate, we would like to visit your home to get a thorough understanding of your needs. We will:
- Help you to assess the amount of cover you need for contents, buildings and valuables
- Consider your current security arrangements
- Advise you on the best ways to mitigate risk
- Prepare a policy tailored to your exact needs and specification
Visiting your home is a key part of our method. Clients are frequently surprised when we mention something we have spotted that they have never considered valuable and have, therefore, never insured. Keeping on top of the changing values of assets, and regular assessment of your acquisitions and disposals, are essential to protect your wealth and prevent you paying for cover you may no longer require.
Are you adequately covered?
In our experience, many people underestimate the value of the things they own, and what may seem like a reasonable amount of contents cover can prove very inadequate should disaster strike. Gifts or inherited items are often, sadly, underinsured, and items collected over a period of time can build to considerable values.
We can help to put a realistic figure on the costs of replacing curtains and carpets throughout a building or help to cost the like-for-like replacement of a wardrobe full of hand-made suits. Perhaps you are a keen golfer? If your clubs were stolen would your existing policy cover the true cost of buying new?
Valuations
It is often difficult to estimate the costs to rebuild heritage buildings, ones constructed using traditional techniques or materials, and those of particular architectural relevance. Individual artworks or other precious items may also need the extra attention of a specialist with a complete understanding of both current and potential future values.
Hughes Plane Silent Review
- Does your current insurer suit your needs?
- Are the sums insured adequate?
- Are there any unusual clauses, exclusions or policy excesses?
In addition, we will look at the amount of effort your current broker is putting into sourcing the right cover for you. Finally, we will recommend a way forward.
Our review is simple, painless, and entirely without obligation.