I need a recommendation for a company to insure our household goods in transit back to the USA.
The Scottish Govmt. website relating to moving house recommends that one pack as much as then can by themselves to mitigate the removals guys' exposure to potential virus in our house. (Safer in here than outside, but I understand.) We were always good with that, so have done. The moving company says that if it's self-packed, we can't get their all-perils insurance, only total loss (aka, the ship sinks, the truck burns up, or they jettison the cargo container at sea, etc.). The cost for their insurance for total loss is $20 per $1,000 value.
We would really like to have some sort of cover for theft of boxes, damage to our furniture/books if the cargo-container leaks badly, mis-handling by the shipper (a box is crushed, or a dresser is dropped down a flight of stairs, that sort of thing).
Can anyone recommend an insurance company, and an idea of costs?
