{"id":183,"date":"2015-05-14T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keystoneinsurance.us\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-04-29T03:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:29:04","slug":"the-biggest-risk-to-your-home-and-how-to-prevent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Risk To Your Home (And How To Prevent It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keystoneinsurance.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Blog-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keystoneinsurance.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Blog-2.png\" alt=\"May Blog 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Blog-2.png 600w, https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Blog-2-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Most people think the biggest risk to their home is a fire or a bad storm. It\u2019s why they buy insurance (and the fact it\u2019s required by their mortgage lender). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But in reality, the biggest concern is protecting your assets from a liability claim. Consider this&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Warm weather has arrived and everyone is beginning their yard work. Mowing, planting\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">flowers, and digging those vegetable gardens. There is a lot of work to be done.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So let&#8217;s say that you dig a large hole in the front yard so you can plant a new tree. You\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">walk away for a moment and while you&#8217;re gone the kid next door runs through the yard,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">falls in the hole, and breaks his ankle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Unfortunately, you could be held responsible for his injury. But not to worry, your homeowner&#8217;s liability insurance is made for these kind of situations. It will pay if someone is injured on your property. It&#8217;s also the coverage that protects you if the dog bites your child&#8217;s friend (as long as it&#8217;s not a restricted breed) or if your cousin falls down your front steps.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you have a large number of assets, then you&#8217;ll want higher liability coverage. If the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">injury exceeds your liability coverage amount, then you could be sued for the difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Work with us to determine the amount of coverage that you are comfortable\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">carrying.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No one can protect themselves by just being careful alone. There are too many\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">possible scenarios that you could never avoid. But with the right insurance coverage,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">you&#8217;ll never have to worry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Call us today for a free review and to discuss how much liability coverage you need.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">DuBois (814) 371-4901<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">Pittsburgh (412) 265-6383<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">Toll-Free 1-800-569-2867<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0Most people think the biggest risk to their home is a fire or a bad storm. It\u2019s why they buy insurance (and the fact it\u2019s required by their mortgage lender). But in reality, the biggest concern is protecting your assets from a liability claim. Consider this&#8230; Warm weather has arrived and everyone is beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21,20,19],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeowner-tips","tag-dubois-pa","tag-home-insurance","tag-liability-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keystoneinsurance.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}