I just called my insurance this am, because I got my insurance and it said sinkhole would be removed upon renewal. If I would like to maintain, call and they would give a quote and I would have to have an inspection done on home. So I called and spoke with the agent, I did tell him I wanted the quote. But his explanation was that the holes that we see, and that swallow homes and property would be covered by the catastrophic ground cover collapse which is on my policy. So I said if I come home and find this huge hole in my yard, you pay to have it filled or whatever they do to take care of it....his response yes under the catastrophic. So I said if I wake up and my garage has been sucked into a hole...he said catastrophic. So I said if my whole house & cars get swallowed...he says catastrophic. So I said what is sinkhole coverage, his response was sinkhole is slow destruction over time...for example cracks in your walls, doors that no longer close properly, floors and tiles that are buckling...he said the best way to describe it would be like a person who has an internal disease that they are unaware of that is slowly destroying their body. He did indicate that Sumter Co. is one of the counties that they are still able to write sinkhole coverage for....but that there are a lot of counties where sinkhole is no longer available.
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