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Homeowner Insurance

Protecting your home, belongings, and liability.

Your home is more than just a place—it’s where life happens. At Truska Insurance Agency, we help homeowners in Chicago and the surrounding areas protect what matters most. We design homeowners insurance solutions tailored to your lifestyle, assets, and peace of mind—delivering the right coverage at the best value.

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Coverage to protect your most valuable asset

Dwelling Coverage

Dwelling Coverage is the foundation, providing financial protection for the structure of your home in case of covered damages.

Other Structures

Other Structures Coverage is a key component of a homeowner’s insurance policy that protects structures on your property that are not attached to your main home, such as detached garages, sheds, , swimming pools, fences, and gates.

Personal Property

Personal Property Coverage protects your belongings—furniture, clothing, electronics, and more—against covered perils like theft, fire, and storms. It ensures you can replace your possessions if they are damaged or lost.

Sewer & Water Backup

Sewer and backup and sump pump failure coverage to protect your basement from flooding is a common issue in many Chicago neighborhoods.

Personal Liability Protection

Personal Liability Insurance provides financial protection if you are found legally responsible for bodily injury or property damage to others.

Loss of Use

Loss of Use provides financial assistance if your home becomes uninhabitable due to a covered loss, such as a fire, storm damage, or other insured peril. It helps cover temporary living expenses while your home is being repaired or rebuilt.

Ordinance or Law Coverage

Helps cover the additional cost of rebuilding or repairing your home to meet current building codes after a covered loss.

Identity Theft

Identity theft can happen to anyone. If your personal information is stolen and used fraudulently, the costs to restore your credit and reputation can be overwhelming. Identity theft coverage helps you recover quickly and with less stress.

Extra Protection, Tailored to You

The amount it would cost to buy a new, similar item to replace your damaged or stolen belongings, without factoring in depreciation.

Extended replacement cost is an endorsement on your home insurance policy that extends your dwelling coverage by 10% to 50% of the cost to rebuild your home.

Service Line Coverage protects against damage to underground utility lines that bring services like water, gas, or electricity to your home.

Matching roofing and siding coverage is an endorsement that can be added to your homeowner’s insurance policy. This endorsement provides coverage for the cost to replace your entire roof or redo your siding if damaged materials can’t be matched.

Sewer and water backup coverage is an optional endorsement added to a homeowners or renters insurance policy that protects against water or sewage backing up into the home through sewers, drains, sump pumps, or related systems.

Generally, personal cyber insurance may protect against ransomware and cyber extortion, online fraud, social engineering, SIM swapping, and cyberbullying.

Flood coverage covers losses from water damage caused by flooding and may help protect your home and belongings.

Earthquake insurance typically pays for repairs to your home if it suffers structural damage from ground movement during an earthquake. That damage can include foundational cracks, broken walls, or the total collapse of your home

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smoke damage

A kitchen fire causes smoke damage throughout the home. Homeowners insurance helps pay for repairs, replaces damaged furniture and appliances, and covers hotel expenses.

Broken Pipe

A burst pipe floods your living room and ruins your flooring and furniture. Your policy covers the cost of cleanup, repairs, and replacement of personal belongings damaged by the water.

Slip and fall

A guest slips on a walkway, covered in ice and snow, and suffers an injury. Your homeowners’ policy helps cover their medical bills and legal expenses if you’re found responsible.

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Rob is such a great person who has fully gained my trust. I appreciate all of his experience and knowledge. I know when I talk to him about what I need, he is always looking out for me and, most importantly, he is honest with me. I can’t tell you how much I’ve come to value honest and trustworthy professionals who are exceptional at what they do. Truska Insurance is definitely one of those places and I recommend his services to everyone I know.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You need enough coverage to completely rebuild your house from the ground up. We will assist you in determining your home’s replacement cost using specialized software. This tool calculates the exact amount of money needed to rebuild the house from the ground up at current local material and labor costs.

Before filing a claim, it’s always best to call your broker first. We can help you evaluate whether submitting a claim makes financial sense, protect your future premiums, and avoid unnecessary hassle with the carrier. As your trusted advisor, we provide personalized, local guidance so you fully understand how your specific policy applies.

You can lower costs by raising your deductible, bundling your home and auto policies, or installing safety features like smoke alarms.