Texas Contents & Personal Property Coverages Facts

Texas · Coverage C is your belongings, not the house

On an HO-3, contents are named-peril coverage, often actual cash value unless you added replacement cost. Jewelry and art have a lower cap than the furniture.

Coverage C pays for furniture, clothes, and other property you own when a covered cause damages or steals them. TDI’s homeowners guide says the limit is usually a percentage of the dwelling limit, and it gives this example: a house insured for $100,000 with contents at 20 percent is $20,000 of contents coverage. That is TDI’s example, not a rule that every policy uses 20 percent. The same guide says policies limit what they pay for jewelry and art. The dollar cap is printed in your form. This page will not invent one. A schedule, or a rider, insures a named item for a stated amount and usually broadens the perils. It does not raise Coverage A.

Replacement cost pays today’s price. Actual cash value pays that price minus depreciation. TDI’s own roof example is a $10,000 replacement, a $2,000 deductible, and an $8,000 check on a replacement-cost policy. Actual cash value would pay less because of age and wear. On contents, the same split applies. If the form holds back depreciation until you replace the item, that holdback is not a denial. The rest is released when you show the invoices. An HO-5, or an endorsement, opens contents to more perils than the named list on a typical HO-3. Flood is excluded on both. Belongings in a shed are still Coverage C. The shed itself is often Coverage B. Off-premises contents on many HO-3 forms are capped, often around 10 percent of Coverage C. That is common, not universal, and it is not how an HO-4 has to work.

The hub: Texas homeowners and the product page. Adding the schedule: riders and what sits outside the basic form. The state desk: Texas service.

List the jewelry before a theft, not after. The sublimit is already in the form. Ask an agent or get a quote.