Author: nmoyer@uhl.uiowa.edu (Nelson P. Moyer, Ph.D.)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:12:06 -0500
I read the fine print in my State Farm Homeowner's Extra policy and discovered they exclude "artificially induced" power surge damage to "chips, capacitors, transistors, tubes, etc. That doesn't make
Author: Joseph.F.Nemecek@twa.com (Nemecek, Joseph F.)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:21:12 -0500
Nelson, you might check with your Electrical Power company. KCP&L will install surge protection at the meter and guarantee at replacement value any electronics items that are damaged. I believe the c
I have just put in a claim to Safeco. Not been paid yet but the insurance adjuster was supportive and said it would be paid. Fred Cady Department of Electrical Engineering Montana State University Bo
<snip> Okay, I admit that I know nothing of insurance matters, but I wouldn't think that a lightning surge would be considered "artificially induced". Lightning is about as "natural" as it gets! 73,
http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search Last month one of my towers took a direct hit from lightning. The ONLY damage was a 486 computer which was completely wiped out because I had failed to protect t
State Farm has a reputation for such silliness. I had a bunch of trouble with them once when one of their insureds ran into my car and trashed it. I would never do business with them. Mine is with Am
You can usually get riders on a policy to cover things usually excluded. Yeah, it's extra dollars, but usually not too bad. Out here on the left coast we get hammered by earthquakes, yet most people
Don't know about you, but I would say that lightning is quite natural and when it strikes a power line, that would have to be a "naturally induced" power surge. An "artificially induced" power surge