Having a working air conditioner in sweltering heat makes your life easier! For your home insurance to cover AC leaks, a covered peril must cause the damage. If your AC is leaking due to accidental or sudden cracking, bulging, or tearing, your home insurance will cover the damage.
However, if your AC stops working due to age or mechanical failure, your home insurance wouldn’t cover the leaks. Even if your AC stopped working suddenly, home insurance
doesn’t cover anything that relates to something an owner could prevent. For example, most home insurance policies exclude rodents or pests since it’s preventable with proper care. To find out whether your AC has coverage, you’ll want to have a professional take a look at it. They can give you an idea of what caused the damage and you can review your policy to determine if you’d have coverage.
If the leak is covered, you can submit a claim to your home insurance for the damage. That said, the cost of the repairs needs to exceed your deductible before your insurance kicks in.
If you don’t have coverage for the leak or the repairs are less than your deductible, you’ll have to pay for them out of pocket.
Once you get your AC leak taken care of, consider taking a few extra minutes to review your home insurance coverage with Jerry
. A licensed broker, Jerry does all the hard work of finding cheap quotes from the top name-brand insurance companies and buying new home or renters insurance. Jerry will even help you cancel your old policy.