08/28/2025
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Below are a few coverages a homeowners policy provides...
Dwelling coverage
Dwelling coverage (Coverage A) helps you pay for repairs to your home and structures permanently connected to your home if an unexpected event that’s covered by your policy, such as a fire, windstorm, lightning or hail, causes damage. This can include some kinds of water damage, but not all.
Example: High winds topple a tree onto your roof. This coverage could help pay for roof repairs or a new roof. Tree removal may also be covered.
Other structures coverage
Other structures coverage (Coverage B) helps you pay to repair or replace structures that aren’t connected to your home, like a fence or shed, if they’re damaged by a covered event.
Example: A heavy load of snow caves in the roof of your toolshed. This coverage could help with the cost of repairing the shed. (If belongings inside the shed are damaged, personal property coverage could help pay for repairing or replacing them.)
Personal property coverage
Personal property coverage (Coverage C) helps you repair or replace your personal belongings if they are stolen or damaged.
Example: Burglars break in and make off with your computer, jewelry and mountain bike. This coverage could pay you what they’re worth, or, depending on the type of coverage you select, the cost of replacing them.
Loss of use coverage
Loss of use coverage (Coverage D), also called additional living expenses coverage, can help you pay to stay elsewhere if your home is uninhabitable because of damage caused by a covered event.
Example: Extensive repairs are needed after a fire guts your home. This coverage could help you pay to rent a home, condo, or apartment while repairs are made.
Personal liability coverage
Personal liability coverage (Coverage E) can help pay costs if you’re responsible for accidental property damage or bodily injury to others.
Example: If your teenager hits a ball through a neighbor’s window, this coverage could help pay for a new window. Or if a guest slips on your icy sidewalk and hits their head, the coverage could help with medical bills and even legal bills from a lawsuit.
Medical payments to others coverage
Medical payments to others coverage (Coverage F) provides limited coverage for medical costs if someone outside your household is injured on your property, no matter whose fault it is.
Example: If a neighbor’s child breaks his arm while playing in your yard, this coverage could help pay for the trip to the emergency room.