What's on offer from FMG insurance?
FMG offers residential customers separate home insurance and content insurance policies. These policies can be extended to include home and contents insurance for lifestyle block properties.
What’s on offer from FMG's home insurance?
FMG's home insurance policy covers more than just your house. It also covers additional structures including garages, sheds, gates, fences, patios and driveways. Benefits include:
- Full coverage in the event of a natural disaster
- Fire-fighting equipment will be replenished, up to $5000
- Septic tanks
- Limited cover of up to $5000 for gradual damage from leaking internal plumbing
- Free replacement of locks and keys if they are damaged, lost, stolen or duplicated without your consent
- Repair or replacement of retaining walls, up to $50,000
- Hidden gradual damage, up to $5000
- Removal of debris, up to $1000
- Tree removal costs, up to $1000
FMG's policy also automatically covers your legal liability, up to $1m, for damage or loss you cause to someone else's property, or accidental bodily injury to another person, at your section.
Optional benefits
You can purchase the following optional benefits:
- Financial cover for matching floor coverings
- No excess fee for accidental breakage of glass and sanitary fixture claims
- Financial cover for lifestyle block fencing, up to $5000
- Repair or replacement of lifestyle block pumps and motors, up to $5000
What’s on offer from FMG's contents insurance?
- $5000 emergency advance
- Temporary accommodation up to $30,000 per event
- Cover for your legal liability for injury to others and loss of their property
- If you can't find a replacement item for a furniture pair or set, FMG will cover replacement of the full set
- Hearing aids, glasses or dentures. Up to $5000, or higher agreed value for loss of hearing aids, prescription glasses and dentures
- Locks and keys replacement
- If you choose not to repair or replace a computer or cellphone, or if it's more than three years old, FMG will pay value up to $5000
- Student studying away from home cover up to $10,000
- Cover for items lost while travelling or on holiday in NZ and Australia
Optional benefits
You can purchase the following optional benefits:
- Cover for up to $5000 for accidental loss for contents related to your lifestyle block operations, including machinery and equipment, stores and harvested product
What makes FMG's home and contents policies different?
FMG's rural focus extends to optional extras, which include lifestyle block fencing, septic tanks, pumps and motors, as well as matched floor coverings and excess-free glass repairs.
About FMG
FMG (formerly Farmers' Mutual Group) is New Zealand’s leading rural insurer. The brand has been proudly Kiwi owned and operated since 1905 and offers insurance and advisory services across the rural, residential and business sectors.
This is only a summary of key benefits. Application for cover is subject to underwriting acceptance. For full details, exclusions and limitations, please refer to the FMG website.