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Special coverage limits – Property insurance

For the types of property below, your homeowners, condo or tenant insurance policy will pay for loss or damage that exceeds your deductible amount, but only to the applicable maximum limit as listed below.

Note

Property type

Maximum coverage limits

Animals, birds or fish

$2,500 (for a Specified Peril other than Impact)

Business property on premises (excluding other property used for business such as samples and goods held for sale).

$7,500

Cannabis

$500

Collectibles, such as sports cards, sports memorabilia and comic books

$5,000*

Each bicycle, tricycle, unicycle or e-bike and its equipment and accessories

$1,000*

Garden type tractors and snow removal equipment including attachments and accessories

$10,000

Golf carts

$5,000

Golfing equipment and accessories, except golf carts, while the golfing equipment is away from your premises

$3,000*

Handbags

$15,000

Jewellery, watches, gems, fur garments and garments trimmed with fur

$6,000 (extension available to $10,000)*

Manuscripts, stamps and philatelic property, (such as stamp collections)

$2,000*

Money, including cash cards or bullion

$500

Numismatic property (such as coin collections)

$500*

Personal property contained in a safety deposit box in a Bank or Trust Company

$10,000

Personal property of a student who is temporarily residing away from home to attend a school, college or university

$10,000

Personal property of physically or mentally challenged persons who are legally in your custody, while residing in a care facility for such persons

$5,000

Personal property of your spouse, father or mother (or spouse’s father or mother) who is living in a nursing home or home for the aged, but who are in your legal custody

$5,000

Renewable energy equipment

$100,000

Securities

$5,000

Spare automobile parts

$250 per item; $1,000 total

Watercraft, their trailers, furnishings, equipment, accessories and motors (we do not insure personal watercraft powered by a jet-pump propulsion system)

$2,500

Wine and spirits on premises

10% of Contents Coverage as shown on the Certificate of Property Insurance

Wine and spirits off premises

1% of Contents Coverage as shown on the Certificate of Property Insurance

Note: Limit does not apply when the wine is stored in the cellars of a wine club or similar location.

Works of art, such as paintings, photographs, drawings etchings, prints and lithographs, including their frames, sculptures, statuary and antiques, and hand-made rugs and tapestries

$15,000 per item; up to a maximum of 15% of Contents Coverage as shown on the Certificate of Property Insurance for all items