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Honey Household

Honey Household

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Description

Insurer
Honey
Policy
Household
Provider
RACQ Insurance Limited
About the insurer
Honey

Cover summary

Building cover
Nominate a sum insured for your building
Contents cover
Nominate a sum insured for your contents
Legal liability
  • Up to $20 million
  • Cover for people named on the policy, plus their family members living with them
  • Cover for incidents in Australia

Cost

Same price to pay monthly
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Covered events

Theft
  • Covers theft and attempted theft
  • Covers theft by someone who enters home without insured's consent
  • No cover for theft by residents, someone who enters home with resident's consent or someone who enters home with consent of person you told could invite people to home
  • Up to $1500 for stolen credit/ATM card fraud (per card)
  • Up to $750 for security firm response
Fire
  • Covers fire, bushfire, grassfire and smoke/heat from fire within 100m of home
  • 72 hour waiting period for bushfire
Flood
  • Covers flood and water runoff
  • Covers landslide and subsidence but must be solely caused by and occur within 72 hours of first flood or water runoff damage
  • No cover for damage caused by water absorbed through floors/walls, rising damp, hydrostatic pressure building up behind/below any part of home, power surge, erosion, vibration, earth shrinkage or expansion or any earth movement
  • No cover for damage to lawns, grass, swimming pools, spas, pool/spa covers and liners, shade/sail cloths or fabric awnings
  • No cover for replacing water in swimming pools/spas
  • 72 hour waiting period for flood and water runoff
Storm and cyclone
  • Covered
  • No cover for damage caused by power surge
  • No cover for damage to lawns, grass or free standing walls
  • Covers swimming pool/spa covers and liners up to 5 years old
  • Up to $500 for swimming pool/spa covers and liners
  • Paintwork or coatings not covered if this is the only building damage
  • 72 hour waiting period
Storm surge
  • Covered
  • No cover for damage caused by water absorbed through floors/walls, rising damp, hydrostatic pressure building up behind/below any part of home or power surge
  • No cover for damage to lawns, grass, swimming pools, spas, pool/spa covers and liners, shade/sail cloths or fabric awnings
  • No cover for replacing water in swimming pools/spas
  • 72 hour waiting period
Action of the sea
Tsunami
Explosion
Earthquake
Vandalism
Impact damage
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Animal damage
  • Covers damage caused by animals not kept at the home
  • Covers bird damage to door/window glass
  • No cover for damage caused by bedbugs, birds, cockroaches, fleas, lice, mice, parasites, pests, rats, termites or pets/other animals kept at the home
Escape of liquid
Breakage
Accidental damage
  • Optional
  • Covers accidental loss and damage to home and contents
  • Covers damage caused by motor burnout
  • Covers fully enclosed and lockable parts of the home
  • Covers furniture; furnishings; household decorative items; works of art; wall hangings; household ornaments; televisions; visual display units; kitchen, dining room, lounge room, bedroom and bathroom wares; floor carpets and household and domestic electrical and electronic goods
  • Covers personal computer equipment and associated hardware
  • No cover for cracking, chipping or breakage of handheld glass, glassware or china items while being used
  • No cover for fish tanks
  • No cover for outdoor swimming pools or spas and equipment, including covers and liners
  • Separate optional cover available for mobile phones
  • Up to 5% contents sum insured for contents in the open air
  • No cover for minor dents, scratches or chips
  • No cover for damage caused by power surge (unless caused by another insured event); or mechanical, electrical or electronic breakdown or failure of items (except motor burnout)
  • No cover for burning, melting or scorching caused by processes that involve heat or fire, cigaretes, cigars, pipes, tobacco, ash or other substances designed to be burned or heated up
  • No cover for damage if you rent out your home

Claims

Out-of-hours claiming
Online and 24/7 phone
How the insurer can settle your claim
  • Repair damaged property
  • Replace damaged property
  • Pay you the property's replacement value, up to your sum insured or other sublimits
Cash settlement for building claims
Customer cost
Cash settlement for contents claims
Customer cost
New for old contents replacement
Yes (excludes clothing and floor carpets over 10 years old)

Building

Motor burnout
  • Motors up to 10 years
  • Optional
Keys and locks after break-in
Up to $1000 overall
Gardens and landscaping
Up to $1000 overall
Costs to comply with building regulations
Reasonable cost
Professional fees
Up to 10% sum insured overall
Mortgage discharge fees
Debris removal and demolition
  • Up to 20% sum insured overall
  • Paid on top of sum insured
Temporary accommodation
  • Up to 12 months or 10% building sum insured
  • Paid on top of sum insured
  • Up to 14 days for short term accommodation
  • Available after a claim for building damage

Contents

Cover for unspecified portable contents
  • Covers some items for insured events and accidental loss/damage
  • Choose overall limit from $2000–$8000
  • Choose limit from $500–$2000 per item
  • Covered anywhere in Australia and New Zealand
  • $300 excess
  • Optional
Optional cover for individual portable valuables
  • Cover for insured events and accidental loss/damage
  • Covered anywhere in Australia and New Zealand
  • $300 excess
Contents in the open air
  • Up to 5% sum insured overall
  • Cover for theft
  • Optional cover for accidental damage
  • No cover for impact
Emergency storage
  • Up to 10% contents sum insured
  • Covers moving/storing contents
Jewellery
  • Up to $6000 overall
  • Up to $2000 per item
Artworks
  • Up to $12000 overall
  • Up to $2000 per item
Collections (e.g. stamps, coins)
Up to $2000 overall
Digital media
Up to $5000 overall
Spoiled food
  • Up to $1000 overall
  • Cover for insured events, unit failure, sudden escape of refrigerant fumes and failure of public electricity supply
Visitors' contents
Up to $500 overall
Pet cover
Overlapping cover at a new house
Up to 14 days cover at both addresses
Cover for contents while moving house
  • Up to contents sum insured overall
  • Cover for fire, flood, road accident and water runoff

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