Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!zeus!bobr
From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Personal Computer Insurance ?
Message-ID: <2851@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 87 22:26:43 GMT
References: <4769@iucs.UUCP> <4689@eecae.UUCP> <1953@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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I also investigated insurance for my Compaq when my house insurance came
due.  As long as it is not for business purposes, there is a standard
allowance for electronic equipment of any type, including computers.
Unfortunately, my system shoots well over that maximum, and so I've bought
an extra cost rider, which has a fixed rate per $100 of replacement cost,
and I've provided a list of components comprising my system.  Even this has
its limits.  If I go over around 15K, they will not insure it without my
installing a home security system, and may not insure it at all.  I mean,
who spends that kind of money on a machine they don't intend to use for
business?  Well, they obviously don't understand the singlemindedness of the
lone computer freak.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK