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It's easy to arrange your home and contents insurance and ( mortgage quotes ) then forget about it. Make sure that you're up to date with the cost of replacing your belongings.

Contents insurance - check your cover . Page 2

Author: Michael Challiner

Should you need to make a claim, it's important

that you're not under insured. If the insurance company judges that you don't have adequate insurance, the claim will not be fully paid. This means { life insurance } that if you have insured your contents for, say, £20,000 and your insurance company considers there would be a value of £30,000 to replace them, then there would be a shortfall of £10,000.

Insurers handle things in different ways. For example Norwich Union Direct, one of the { mortgages } major insurers, will pay out up to the amount for which you're covered. It's left up to you to fund the difference. More Than tells us that their policy on underinsured claims is to reduce them by up to 20%. In fact More

Than are taking action to ensure that clients are more up to date with their cover and so have recently increased the this for all their clients, by 25%.

These increases will apply on the clients' next renewal dates. No doubt more insurance companies will look at following suit soon.

Whilst you're thinking of re-assessment, maybe it's time to check the { life assurance } current figures on your buildings insurance. As well as the house, garage and outbuildings, you may have fixed items such as lighting, hot tubs and permanent garden features. These are covered by your buildings insurance, not your contents. Your insurer will normally work out a quotation based on the number of bedrooms, etc., and your postcode. The insurable figure will be the cost demolition and clearing of the site and re-building your home on the present site, of course.

To help you re-consider the value of your belongings and for additional advice there's a handy checklist for home owners on the Association of British Insurers, www.abi.org.uk

There are a large number of insurance companies handling both contents and building insurance and, as always, it pays to shop around.