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Home > Blog > The Importance of Renters Liability Insurance
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021

The Importance of Renters Liability Insurance

If you plan to rent your next home, then you will have to meet several conditions set by your landlord. Along with signing your lease and undergoing a background check, one of the other requirements you are likely to face is a demand that you buy renters insurance, namely renters liability coverage.a person standing in front of a window 

As a tenant who leases someone else’s home, it’s your job to take responsibility for yourself and the goings-on within your property. After all, if something were to go wrong, then you aren’t the only one who could face a big personal loss. Renters liability insurance is the coverage that will help you pick up the pieces of these problems if something goes wrong, nevertheless. 

Still, this coverage is not all-encompassing, and deals only with your own legal responsibility for accidents in your rented home. Let’s take a closer look at this coverage and its overarching benefit to you as an individual policyholder. 

What is renter’s insurance? 

You might not own the home you live in, but you still have assets and liabilities within the rented space that merit protection. Renters insurance is specifically designed to help you protect your own possessions within the home without burdening you with the full amount of coverage that a regular homeowner might need. After all, you might own everything within the rented home, but you don’t own the property itself. 

Your policy will contain coverage for your living expenses and possessions in case of an unexpected hazard at home. However, another important piece of coverage that renters policies provide is liability insurance. It’s there not to pay for damage to your own possessions, but for the damage done to others that is your fault. 

How does renters liability insurance work? 

Liability insurance will be included as part of your overall renters insurance package. It exists to account for the fact that when you are responsible for causing someone else a problem, then you often are legally responsible for helping them pay for the losses you caused them. It doesn’t matter if you made a mistake unintentionally; the fact that you were responsible might put you on the line to foot the bill. 

By making a claim against your renters liability insurance, you will be able to receive assistance covering these costs, rather than having to pay for them out of pocket. That’s a big way to ease an unexpected burden on your wallet. 

Most of the time, liability policies will cover several different types of third-party losses: 

  • Bodily Injuries: Were someone to get hurt in your home, they might demand compensation for their medical bills, lost income or other financial problems. 

  • Property Damage: There are times where you might inadvertently damage someone else’s property. For example, you might cause a fire in your apartment which spreads to the unit next door. Property damage liability insurance will make certain that you can provide them with the compensation that will help them recover their losses. 


Some policies also cover third-party personal injuries like libel and slander, or injuries resulting from a pet bite. 

Another benefit of this coverage is that it will cover your legal expenses if you are found to be legally responsible for someone else’s losses. Since lawsuits frequently arise when someone thinks you are responsible for harm they sustained, your liability coverage will ensure that you don’t have to cover the costs of defending yourself in court all on your own. 

Why do landlords require this coverage? 

A landlord doesn’t want to face an undue personal strain just because a tenant’s mistakes caused a problem on the property. Therefore, by requiring you to have liability insurance, your landlord will be instituting a risk management stopgap measure that will ensure that they never have to take responsibility for your mistakes. 

Still, you shouldn’t think of this liability insurance requirement as a burden. Instead, think of it as a way to give yourself the support you need to pick up the pieces of a problem that you didn’t intend to happen, but that still occurred nonetheless. All in all, the very affordable cost of this coverage will be far less than the losses you might encounter by going uninsured. 
 
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