March 10 (UPI) — British residence insurance coverage firm Aviva detailed a number of the most uncommon claims involving canines, together with a canine that flooded its proprietor’s residence by operating the kitchen sink.
Aviva stated it usually receives about 800 unintended harm claims every year for incidents involving canines, and the corporate stated every declare was valued at a median $1,440.
The corporate detailed a number of the most uncommon claims involving the canine companions of householders, together with the story of a Labrador/Nice Dane combine named Whiskey who turned on the water faucet in his proprietor’s kitchen, inflicting $5,233 price of flooding harm to the home.
One other buyer knowledgeable the corporate that she was cleansing out a fish tank at her residence when her canine turned snagged on a charging cable and triggered her laptop computer laptop to fall right into a bucket full of water.
The corporate stated different claims included a canine who spilled paint on their proprietor’s stairs, a canine who spilled bleach on their proprietor’s carpet, a canine who knocked a sizzling iron onto a carpet and a canine who received excited to see one other canine and knocked over their proprietor’s TV.
“Most residence insurance coverage insurance policies have exclusions for harm brought on by chewing, scratching, tearing or fouling by home animals, so we might urge prospects to verify their cowl. However as our data present, there are many dog-related incidents the place residence insurance coverage — and notably unintended harm cowl — can come to the rescue,” stated Kelly Whittington, property claims director for Aviva.