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The Clark Howard Podcast

3.6.19 Watch out for less generous homeowner's insurance policies; Smartphone sales are in decline

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

One couple sued State Farm over slashing benefits. Make sure you pay close attention to your coverage limits; Smart sales are in decline. Clark discusses why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to

0:10.8

keep more of what you make.

0:13.6

Coming up later, there's a big trend in the cell phone industry that can work to your

0:19.7

advantage.

0:20.7

I'm going to tell you how it plays out.

0:23.7

So state farm, I think, is the largest homeowners insurer in the country.

0:29.8

It's a lot of trends for a lot of their competitors.

0:34.3

And state farm has been being sued multiple lawsuits around the country because state farm

0:42.6

changed coverage in homeowners policies and just lost a lawsuit in the state of Pennsylvania

0:53.1

for quite a bit of money.

0:55.6

And the lawsuit concerned how people were notified by state farm of the changes in their

1:03.5

policy that were actually taking benefits away, but referring to it in the information

1:10.6

being communicated to homeowners policy holders as additional coverages.

1:16.2

So sounding like they were giving you more benefits when state farm was actually taking

1:20.9

them away.

1:22.7

And so there was a great right up in the Philadelphia inquirer about what they were up to and

1:29.2

what state farm has done is they've greatly limited coverage in the event you have water

1:35.8

damage in your home.

1:38.0

And so now you're facing a lot more out of pocket.

1:41.6

So you're paying for this coverage that now has been excused the pun watered down by state

1:48.0

farm.

1:49.2

So they've been sued two different ways, one on the coverage reduction that people have

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