For any Aussies on the forum…
GIO Insurance are a pack of dicks!I have been fighting with them for the past week, despite the computer equipment being listed with a value, they are disputing it, saying that this is a graphics workstation, not a ‘home computer’ and would have required separate listing and approval. My solicitor does not think that we can make them pay.
So to anyone else with expensive computer gear, notify your insurance company with an itemised list and get it in writing from them that it is explicitly covered, apparently anything less than that and they can weasle out of it.
Yeah, all insurance companies are a pack of dicks. I’m sure your solicitor has advised that you escalate the complaint and then further escalate it to the Ombudsman who can potentially make them pay if they find in your favour.
I am currently deciding whether to take it as a sign from the gods and bow out of the hobby, or start over. I lost so much work.
If you’d like another suggestion- if your data is lost then perhaps start on a new project for now and come back to what you had been working on later.
I’m very sorry to hear about your misfortune, if I was a religious person I’d be demanding that my deity set things right! 😃