Umbrella Insurance

<p><strong>Josh: </strong> This is Josh Tirado. And on this episode of making smart decisions, we are going to touch on umbrella insurance. So let me dive into the ever-exciting fun world of property and casualty insurance said no one ever. Auto insurance, homeowners, insurance,  renter's insurance. These are things that are necessities.</p><p>[00:01:54]And oftentimes people overlook umbrella insurance. So let me just quickly touch on this because this might actually be the coolest, most useful insurance item that you don't have or never heard of.  Umbrella insurance,  the reason I call it that is it's an umbrella of protection over you.</p><p>[00:02:09] It's a personal liability insurance policy for protection. And this comes into play. Let's say someone is injured at your home. Let's say you're in a car accident, someone's injured and somebody wants to Sue you there. There are certain limits and they're very low limits on your homeowners on your auto policy.</p><p>[00:02:27] And they're suing you personally. So this personal liability protection kicks in and covers you in case of an unfortunate incident that requires someone taking legal action against you. Now that being said, the reason I think underutilized is it provides a great value for $1 million of coverage.</p><p>[00:02:46] Most companies charge under $300 for the year. oftentimes some around $200, you can get a million dollars of liability coverage for the year. And I think that is that's an outstanding value and many people do not have it. And I have this coverage. As a matter of fact, there was a period of time when I was recommending this to every one of my clients.</p><p>[00:03:06] And it got to the point where my clients were so aggravated that their insurance person had not recommended this, that they came back to me and asked if I could sell it to them. I said, no, I don't do property and casualty, but it did lead to a thought where I did take on a partner. And we started a property and casualty insurance agency.</p><p>[00:03:25]We sta