Great service from Chartis

[RobertE]

On another thread I described the stupid pilot trick of mine that produced a prop strike.  In earlier threads I've read fairly menacing comments about how insurance companies sometimes deny coverage for a technicality.  So I want to give kudos to Chartis. 

 

The quote for relocating the aircraft and doing a tear down of the engine and overhaul of the prop was $19K.  Chartis asked for routine stuff (photos, a description of the incident, evidence of a valid license and medical, a detailed quote, etc) and today called to say coverage was confirmed and to ask where to send the $19K (to be increased if the teardown itself indicated further damage than expected). 

 

The incident was 5 days ago, I had been a Chartis customer for all of 14 days prior to the incident (previously with USAIG) and they've not even received my first premium check.  Pretty good service.

 

The least I can do is recommend them to others.

 

 

[jetdriven]

Wait till you get the renewal bill and all the other companies refuse to quote you.

[aviatoreb]

Wait till you get the renewal bill and all the other companies refuse to quote you.

 

true...but I bet the renewal bill will be less than $19k I hope.

[jetdriven]

Sure. It will just be two grand for the next three years from Chartis only.

[RobertE]

The AOPA agency through which I purchased the insurance says I should expect a small increase or, if I can provide evidence of taking one of those AOPA online safety courses within the last 6 months, no increase.  The later deal is a provision of the policy.  But I think the last one I took was over a year ago.  In any event, I'll provide a report a year from now on renewal.  Time will tell.

[aaronk25]

After my gear up last year and 60k in damage my insurance went from $1700 to 1600, so it went down $100 bucks because I got more time in type

That was through Chartis.

[jetdriven]

Aaron, did anyone else decline to quote you when you renewed your policy?

[bnicolette]

I just did my renewal. I had a small claim with Chartis and the premium went up very slightly but Phoeniex did pull their quote. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[aaronk25]

Ya know one would insure me. I was really pissed off at Chartis about some other things that happened during the claim processing so I tried to get insurance elsewhere but was told no one else would insurance me as they wanted to let Chartis collect a few years of premium before they would consider insuring me, as a courtesy to Chartis.

[aaronk25]

Not to rehash the old thread but I installed 25k of avionics in the bird a few days before my incident and didn't adjust the hull vale but my policy said they would cover 130% of the hull value for additions within 30 days.

Sure enough they wanted to total the bird instead of fix, and refused to use the extra 30% allowance for recent installations until I involved mn dept of commerce.

[tony]

Sure. It will just be two grand for the next three years from Chartis only.

 

When I was running a flying club and one of the members had an accident, that's exactly what happened.  It wasn't chartis though, it was one of the other underwriters.

[Alan Fox]

I had a 7K claim 5 years ago , my premiums never went up, I believe I am with Aerospace........

[1964-M20E]

Chartis did good by me when Issac flooded my plane.  My preimum went up but so did my insured hull value so I really do not have a good comparison.