| Average Homeowners Losses, 2016-2020 (1) |
(Weighted average, 2016-2020)
|
| Cause of loss |
Claim frequency (2) |
Claim severity (3) |
| Property damage (4) |
5.70 |
$13,804 |
| Fire and lightning |
0.26 |
77,340 |
| Water damage and freezing |
1.61 |
11,650 |
| Wind and hail |
2.88 |
11,695 |
| Theft |
0.19 |
4,415 |
| All other (5) |
0.76 |
6,773 |
| Liability (6) |
0.09 |
23,611 |
| Bodily injury and property damage |
0.07 |
30,324 |
| Medical payments and other |
0.03 |
7,147 |
| Credit card and other (7) |
(8) |
$820 (9) |
| Average (property damage
and liability), 2016-2020 |
5.79 |
$13,962 |
(1) For homeowners multiple peril policies (HO-2, HO-3, HO-5 and HE-7 for North Carolina). Excludes tenants and condominium owners policies. Excludes Alaska, Texas and Puerto Rico.
(2) Claims per 100 house years (policies).
(3) Accident year incurred losses, excluding loss adjustment expenses, i.e., indemnity costs per accident year incurred claims.
(4) First party, i.e., covers damage to policyholder's own property.
(5) Includes vandalism and malicious mischief.
(6) Payments to others for which policyholder is responsible.
(7) Includes coverage for unauthorized use of various cards, forgery, counterfeit money and losses not otherwise classified.
(8) Less than 0.01.
(9) Claim severity for credit card and other is significantly lower than was shown in previous years due to a change in the companies surveyed to produce the data. The new selection of companies use different exclusions which have been applied throughout the five years used in this chart.
Source: ISO庐, a Verisk Analytics庐 business. |
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