Primary and excess flood coverage for your home

DUAL offers specialized primary and excess flood insurance for your home, as well as a competitive alternative to the NFIP.

A XV

A.M. Best rated carrier

Online rating capabilties

Non-admitted, nationwide coverage

Competitive NFIP pricing

Primary flood

Primary flood coverage offered through our revolutionary online rating portal as a competitive alternative to the NFIP.

Key features

  • Non-admitted, nationwide 
  • Online portal for quoting, issuing and binding 
  • Three different capacity providers 
  • Replacement cost coverage for building and contents 
  • Ability to schedule multiple locations into one policy 
  • Competitive rates based on tier county locations 
  • Policy wording accepted by lenders 

Program appetite

  • Residential and commercial buildings
  • Condos - minimum of four stories, positively elevated A+ XV zones

Limits

  • Building and contents - $3.5m combined on any one building per occurrence (building and contents)
  • Busines income/loss of rents - $500,000 per occurrence

Coverages available

  • Buildings and contents coverage mirrors the NFIP form and is lender compliant
  • Business income/rental value (including extra expense)

Excluded risks

  • Properties located in a community currently in an emergency program
  • Coverage for mobile homes
  • Medical equipment
  • Perishable goods, including food and/or drink
  • Business income and/or rental value only coverage

Excess flood

Damages from flooding could be more than your standard flood insurance policy can protect. If your estimated cost to rebuild is higher than the limits, you need an excess flood insurance policy to be sure that funds are available to repair your home or business.

Program appetite

  • Residential dwelling (1-4 family)
  • Apartments, multi-family
  • Condominiums
  • Commercial properties

Limits

  • $15m all coverages combined (higher limits available on a submit for rating basis)

Coverages available

Coverages available include

  • Real property
  • Contents - household or business contents
  • Loss of income - net business income or loss of rent
Flooded street

Excluded risks

  • Properties built on stilts over water
  • Mobile, manufactured and prefabricated buildings
  • Soft costs in respect of construction risks
  • Medical equipment
  • Food stuffs and perishable goods
  • Contents not covered under an NFIP Policy located in basements
  • Coastal barrier resource act (CBRA Zones) or non-NFIP participating communities

DUAL Flood submission requirements

  • NFIP/Acord application or renewing NFIP dec page
  • DUAL supplemental
  • Elevation certificate needed for post firm A or V zones to bind coverage
  • Excel SOV for multiple locations
  • Confirmation of no prior flood losses
  • Loss runs

Primary NFIP alternative through Wright Flood

As a competitive alternative to the NFIP, we've partnered with Wright Flood to offer a variety of flood insurance options.

Key features

  • No binding on flood policies
  • Flood policy covers only one building
  • Request quotes and service policies online
    • When the flood quote request form is submitted, it will automatically be sent to our flood department. You will receive confirmation when the request is received by the flood department.
    • The team will process the application and fax a copy to you. We cannot accept flood quote sheets with premium and we need to have a signed application that has been processed on the flood rating website. If you need an application, you may contact our department by phone, fax or email.
    • You will then need to return the signed application and premium
  • If you do not know the zone, we will order a zone determination. This may take longer to process the application depending on the zone determination company.
  • DUAL Personal Lines will process the policy issuance, and you will then receive your copy of the policy in the mail
  • Commission will be mailed separately the second week of the month after the policy is issued

To get started with a quote, we'll need

  • Insured name and property location
  • Date of construction
  • Foundation
  • Amount of coverage needed for building and contents
  • Deductible

We do the rest! We will contact your insurance agency immediately if additional information is required.

For more information on our Wright Flood offering, please contact [email protected]

Interested in a flood quote with Wright Flood?

Fill out our flood quote form below.

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Ready to process your Wright Flood quote?

Log in to your Wright Flood account below.

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Contact the experts

For DUAL offerings, please contact Patrick. For Wright Flood offering, please contact Tyson.

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Patrick Small

President, DUAL Specialty Flood
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Tyson Horn

SVP Underwriting & Product Management

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