Home Emergency Insurance and Assistance in Europe

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Home Emergency Insurance and Assistance in Europe is a report and associated PartnerBASE™ database about the market for this specialized type of cover in ten countries in Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

In essence, the term 'home emergency insurance and assistance' encompasses policies that are sold on a stand-alone basis, or bundled with household insurance, banking products or utility services, that cover one or more of the following home-related problems:

- malfunctioning of gas boilers, gas supply pipes or gas central heating;
- problems with plumbing, drainage or water supply pipes;
- electrical emergencies or breakdowns.

Moreover, in several European markets, other types of cover are sometimes included within home emergency policies, most notably key or lock emergency insurance. In some cases, policies may also extend to other services such as emergency accommodation, child care, pet care or even psychological assistance following an emergency.

A number of factors combine to form a firm rationale for a report and database about home emergency insurance and assistance in Europe. First and foremost, this is the first ever focused publication on the subject on a pan-European basis. This is curious given the facts that the market  is estimated by Finaccord to be worth as much as EUR 2.65 billion across ten European countries in 2010 and that it is growing rapidly in some countries.

Moreover, home emergency cover potentially represents a development opportunity for a variety of different distributors and providers. Over and above dedicated assistance firms that may specialize exclusively or in part in the field of home assistance, insurance companies can also develop home emergency insurance and assistance propositions that they can combine within their regular household insurance, sell on a stand-alone basis or distribute through other organizations.

In addition, as distributors and sometimes as service providers, energy and water firms can also enhance their core revenues through cross-selling home emergency cover.

You may be able to use this report and the PartnerBASE™ that accompanies it in one or more of the following ways:

- appreciate the size of the opportunity in the market for home emergency insurance and assistance in Europe: in aggregate, this is a substantial market;

- understand how dynamic competitors are helping the sector to grow at a rate well in excess of the underlying markets for utilities services and household insurance in a number of countries;

- assess the position of significant national and international competitors such as almeda, Asitur, AXA Assistance, Europ Assistance, Fidelia Assistance, HomeServe, Inter Mutuelles Assistance, Mapfre Asistencia, Mondial Assistance, Multiasistencia, Roland Schutzbrief-Versicherung, SPB and The Warranty Group;

- the UK accounted for almost two thirds of the EUR 2.65 billion market value in 2010: hence understanding the exact dynamics of the market for home emergency insurance and assistance in this country, and how and why consumers buy it, will provide indicators for how the market may develop elsewhere in Europe in future.

For further information about this research, please access the table of contents and report prospectus by clicking on the links at the top of this page, or e-mail .

Equivalent foreign language titles:
L'Assurance et l'Assistance d'Urgence à l'Habitat
Schutzbrief- und Assistance-Leistungen für Haus und Wohnung in Europa
Assistenza ed Assicurazione per Emergenza Casa in Europa
Assistência Residencial na Europa
Asistencia de Hogar en Europa