Water Damage Legal Liability Insurance

  

See: Insurance. See Water Damage Clause. See: Water Damage Insurance.

The key idea is that water damage can come from many places, be a range of players' faults, and is really hard to permanently fix (mold is a thing). So most insurance companies specifically exclude many forms of water damage in their contracts, because they just don't want to be on the hook for an endless stream (literally) of problems.

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