{"id":143,"date":"2021-05-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2021-05-30T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T15:47:07","slug":"dos-and-donts-when-filing-a-home-insurance-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/dos-and-donts-when-filing-a-home-insurance-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Dos and Dont&#8217;s when Filing a Home Insurance Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dos and Don&rsquo;ts when Filing a Home Insurance Claim<\/h1>\n<p>One of the policies on your expense sheet that you pay but hope you never have to use is a home insurance policy. That&#8217;s why many St. Augustine, FL homeowners do not know how to file a home insurance claim. Unfortunately, terrible things happen, and you may need to call your insurance company to file a claim. If you have recently bought home insurance or had damages to your property, here are a few dos and don&#8217;ts&#8217; we thought you should know.<\/p>\n<h2>Do: Contact Your Insurance Company<\/h2>\n<p>Your first step towards filing a successful insurance claim is contacting your insurance provider. If there was criminal activity involved, call the police first and get a police report. Your insurance company will request it when compensating you for damages.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t: Touch Anything If a Crime Was Committed<\/h2>\n<p>If there was a criminal activity like murder, consider your home a crime scene and don&#8217;t touch anything until the police allow you. Remember, you will also be questioned regarding the crime, so leave everything as it is until the investigations are done.<\/p>\n<h2>Do: Document Everything<\/h2>\n<p>Tim Huber Insurance&nbsp;recommends taking as many videos as possible. There is nothing like over documenting when it comes to your home insurance claim. Your smartphone can be a reliable tool for taking pictures and videos to be used during the compensation. It&rsquo;s even better if you can capture the origin of the loss and the resulting damage.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&rsquo;t: Throw Away Receipts<\/h2>\n<p>Receipts will always be helpful in any insurance claim. You will need them to prove that you&nbsp;owned specific items that were stolen, and you will also need receipts as evidence of your incurred costs&nbsp;when your home becomes unlivable.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to study your St. Augustine, FL home insurance policy before filing your claim to avoid attracting&nbsp;extra premium charges.&nbsp; For more information about filing home insurance claims, contact Tim Huber Insurance today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dos and Don&rsquo;ts when Filing a Home Insurance Claim One of the policies on your expense sheet that you pay but hope you never have to use is a home insurance policy. That&#8217;s why many St. Augustine, FL homeowners do not know how to file a home insurance claim. Unfortunately, terrible things happen, and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-insurance","tag-st-augustine-fl","tag-tim-huber-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timhuberins2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}