{"id":243,"date":"2016-05-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T07:58:47","slug":"why-you-need-umbrella-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/why-you-need-umbrella-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need Umbrella Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this &ndash; you are only a few years away from being able to finally retire.&nbsp; You have amassed a nice sized retirement account and you have finally managed to pay off both your home and your car.&nbsp; Added all together, you might have assets that amount to near a million.&nbsp; You have done well for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>One day, as you are driving along, you get into an accident.&nbsp; Thank goodness you aren&rsquo;t hurt badly and the damage that your vehicle sustained is within the coverage limits of your auto insurance.&nbsp; However, the other vehicle was carrying execs from a rather large company.&nbsp; The damage to their vehicle&nbsp;and their bodies is a bit more serious.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling of the court is that you are the responsible party and have to pay for the damages to the other party&rsquo;s vehicle along with their medical expenses and lost wages.&nbsp; The total comes to about a million dollars.&nbsp; Your vehicle insurance will cover around $250,000 but you are left on the hook for the difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are like most people, this could financially ruin you. Unless you happen to have an umbrella insurance policy.&nbsp; This is a type of insurance that will take over when you hit the overage limits of your other insurance policies.&nbsp; In cases like this, it could handle the balance as well as any legal costs.&nbsp; This will save you from losing all of your assets, including your retirement, just because of an accident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember that coverages and policies will vary by state so make sure that you know what you are getting and what it covers.&nbsp; If you are in the Bethlehem, PA area, come on into Saucon Insurance Agency where are friendly and knowledgeable agents are standing by and ready to assist you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this &ndash; you are only a few years away from being able to finally retire.&nbsp; You have amassed a nice sized retirement account and you have finally managed to pay off both your home and your car.&nbsp; Added all together, you might have assets that amount to near a million.&nbsp; You have done well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauconinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}