When employees of American Family Insurance discovered recording that Susie Salazar of Greeley, Colorado owned a pit bull, they did what company rules dictated: they cancelled her homeowner’s policy. After all, on the list of done a similar thing this past year to Nebraska sheriff’s deputy Andy Woodward, as soon as they identified his police dog, a Belgian Malinois named Diezel, lived as his family dog as he wasn’t practical.
When you’re looking at dogs, American Family Insurance contains a policy of not issuing homeowner’s insurance to families owning certain breeds, get the job done canine showcased hasn’t ever done something more threatening than lick a toddler’s hand.
Firearms? Well … you’ve got to be proven guilty first. “American Family will insure guns,” a spokeswoman said. “However American Family will likely not insure those who been convicted of felonies for crimes involving weapons.”
Think about this by doing this. Dogs might bite. Guns might kill. What worries an insurer more?
The issue of gun ownership and insurance coverage introduced out increasing importance you should be cautious being a growing amount of state legislators, aggravated while having less progress in Washington on enacting perhaps the most rudimentary method of gun control, making the effort to force consumers who own guns to buy liability insurance