Is your customer’s condo unit ready for the next earthquake?
CEA condominium earthquake insurance policies provide your customers with the strength they need to recover from a damaging earthquake.
Talk to your customer about the CEA earthquake-coverage options that fit their needs and budget. And use our premium calculator to help get them a quick earthquake insurance price estimate.
Did you know?
Earthquake damage and loss isn’t covered by condo-unit or HOA insurance.
A CEA earthquake insurance policy can help pay for damages to the inside of your customer's unit and belongings.
CEA condo unit coverage options*
Building Property**
Helpful when the inside of your customer's condo unit is damaged, such as interior walls or fixtures.
Personal Property**
Coverage to repair or replace your customer's covered personal belongings if they are damaged in an earthquake.
Loss of Use
A necessity for additional living expenses if your customer must live outside their unit because of earthquake damage or as directed by a civil authority. This coverage never has a deductible.
Loss Assessment
Up to their chosen coverage limit, Loss Assessment coverage helps pay your customer's share of certain assessments levied by their HOA on its members for earthquake-damage repairs or to pay a master-policy deductible. This coverage can help with charges for repairs to the exterior of your customer's condo development or certain common areas, as well as building code upgrades. Useful when certain charges get passed on to your customer by their HOA after an earthquake.
Building Code Upgrades
Helps cover the costs to get your customer's condo unit up to current building code standards.
Emergency Repairs
Handy coverage when your customer needs to make urgent, necessary repairs after an earthquake to help protect their unit from further damage, such as plywood to board up damaged windows.
Breakables
This coverage helps replace insureds’ valuable fragile personal property like wedding china, glassware, crystal, ceramic, pottery, porcelain, or marble items that are broken because of an earthquake. Available for new and renewal policies written on or after January 1, 2025.
Get more details about our condo policy coverages and deductibles.
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*We encourage you to read the entire CEA policy—and its policy declarations page—to understand coverages and how they work. Exclusions and special limits apply. All terms and conditions of CEA insurance coverage are found in the CEA insurance-policy form. Refer to a sample policy, below.
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Condo-Unit Owners Insurance FAQs
We've gathered some frequently asked questions from condo-unit owners and agents to help you understand how a CEA policy can help your customer recover from the next damaging earthquake.
A. Yes. Loss Assessment coverage can be added to the insured's CEA condo policy and has options up to $100,000 for an individual unit owner to help cover the cost of special assessments their Home Owners Association (HOA) may assess for the cost of repairing the unit structures, or may be used towards the HOA’s master policy deductible. For all terms and conditions please read the CEA condominium policy.
A. Use CEA’s premium calculator for agents to help your condo client find a policy that works best for them. You can play around with coverage limits and deductible options, and add the coverage choices they’re interested in, to make sure they have the policy that fits their needs.
A. The insured does not have to pay their deductible out of pocket to receive payment on a claim. The deductible is subtracted from their covered damage, so they don’t have to pay any of the deductible up front before receiving their claim payment. And remember that Loss of Use never has a deductible.
A. There are thousands of known faults in California, and scientists continue to discover new ones. Since earthquakes can happen anywhere in California, damage to your client’s condo unit and personal property is always possible. Check to see earthquake risk near you and your client and help them take steps to get prepared, which includes purchasing the best earthquake policy to meet their needs and budget.