What is liability coverage?
If you are found responsible for someone else’s injuries or property damage, liability insurance helps protect you financially.
Why do you need liability coverage?
The liability coverage amounts in your auto and home insurance policies may not be enough to cover your assets. Having an appropriate amount of liability coverage can give you peace of mind.
Types of liability coverage
Auto
Property and bodily injury
Example: You glance at your phone approaching an intersection and miss the light turning red. Unable to stop in time, you crash into another car, injuring the driver and totaling their vehicle. You’d be responsible for their medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
Home
Injuries or property damage
Home liability can arise in many ways—like a neighbor’s dog you’re watching biting a guest, a diseased tree falling on a neighbor or their home, a guest tripping on a rug and getting hurt, or someone leaving your party drunk and causing an accident.
Umbrella
Personal liability insurance
Umbrella insurance provides extra liability protection beyond your auto and home policies. It safeguards your assets (home equity, savings, future income) if you’re liable for damages exceeding your primary coverage limits, potentially preventing attorneys from targeting them.
How much coverage do I need?
In general, if the amount of equity you have in your home plus savings and investments is MORE than the highest amount of liability coverage on your policy, you may want to consider personal liability (umbrella)coverage. Consider meeting with a financial advisor to review your assets and recommend the amount of liability coverage you may need.
What about cost?
Many factors can affect your premium. But you could save up to 25% off your home policy with our auto/home bundle!
Why choose Member Benefits?
- Guaranteed Replacement Cost: For homes built during or after 1950, we will pay the full cost to repair or replace your home with materials of like kind and quality without the limits imposed by most other insurers.
- No deductible for claims on school grounds (e.g. vandalism, hail, fender bender in parking lot).
- Coverage up to $2,000 of personal items while on school grounds and damaged prep materials for classroom regardless of the cause of loss. No deductible!
- Access to Personal Risk Protection where you can create your own legal documents (will, trust, health care directives) without attorney fees. You can also electronically store and share these documents.
- Personal consultations to answer questions and become a better insurance consumer.