The pool
A pool is the most common large liability exposure in the Valley and the one people think least about, because everyone has one. An incident involving a child is the scenario that exceeds a standard homeowners liability limit most often.
Pools, freeway traffic, and rental property are all ordinary here. Each one raises the ceiling on what a liability claim can reach, and an umbrella is what sits above that ceiling.
An umbrella pays after your home and auto liability limits are exhausted.
Three ordinary local facts that each raise the number a claim can reach.
A pool is the most common large liability exposure in the Valley and the one people think least about, because everyone has one. An incident involving a child is the scenario that exceeds a standard homeowners liability limit most often.
Multi-vehicle collisions on Valley freeways involve more cars and more injuries than a two-lane highway does. Auto liability limits that look generous on paper are the first thing to run out when several people are hurt.
If you own property you rent out, you have taken on a second set of liability exposures with a second set of people on them. An umbrella can sit above both the home and the rental.
Three things worth understanding before you buy one.
The underlying home and auto liability limits have to be at a level the carrier requires before the umbrella attaches. Raising those first is sometimes the cheaper move.
Umbrella liability generally follows you rather than the property, which matters if you spend part of the year somewhere else, as a good number of Valley households do.
Extra liability is priced per million and is usually a small fraction of what the underlying home and auto cost together. We quote it alongside them so you see the actual number for your situation rather than a rule of thumb.
Tell us your current home and auto liability limits. An umbrella attaches above them, so that is where the conversation starts.
We quote it alongside the underlying policies so you see the real number.
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