Insurance Hub

Five coverage lines. Zero accounts. One PDF.

A privacy-first coverage estimator for Auto, Home/Renters, Term Life, Disability, and Umbrella. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is sent to our server. Fill the six fields, read your tailored limits, and download a one-page summary to shop to a broker or captive agent.

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Your recommendations

Auto

  • Bodily injury liability: 100/200 (thousand per-person / per-accident)
  • Property damage liability: $100k minimum
  • Uninsured/underinsured motorist: match bodily injury limits
  • Keep collision + comprehensive while vehicle value is meaningful
  • Raise deductibles to $1,000 if your emergency fund covers it (shaves ~15% off premium)

Renters

  • Personal property: $27k (12-15× monthly rent is the rule of thumb)
  • Liability: $100k minimum — most policies include it for ~$5/mo
  • Loss-of-use coverage ≥ 30 % of personal property (keeps a roof over you after a fire)
  • Replacement-cost (not actual-cash-value) endorsement — the ~15 % upcharge is almost always worth it

Term Life

  • Face amount: ~$680k (8× your income, standard DIME-method baseline)
  • Term length: 20 years — covers the window until your youngest dependent is self-sufficient
  • Pick level-premium term; skip return-of-premium and whole-life variants unless a licensed advisor models the IRR for you
  • Avoid employer-only group life as the sole policy — it rarely moves with you to a new job

Disability (LTD)

  • Target 60 % of pre-tax income replaced (post-tax if you pay the premium with after-tax dollars)
  • Your employer covers ~40% — top up with a private policy for the ~$1417/mo gap
  • Use 'own-occupation' definition if you can afford it; 'any-occupation' is cheaper but harder to collect on
  • Elimination period: 90 days is the sweet spot — pair with 6 months of liquid savings

Umbrella

  • An umbrella policy is OPTIONAL at your current asset level
  • Revisit once your net worth crosses ~$200k — premiums are typically $200-$400/yr for $1M coverage

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Methodology

How the Insurance Hub works

The Insurance Hub estimates five coverage lines — Auto, Home or Renters, Term Life, Disability, and Umbrella (Supplemental) — using the same back-of-envelope math a fee-only financial planner would run on a legal pad in the first fifteen minutes of a client meeting. Nothing is pulled from an external carrier API, nothing is predictive-pricing your individual risk, and nothing you type leaves this browser tab.

Term life uses the standard DIME-style multiplier (Debt, Income, Mortgage, Education): 8× your pre-tax income if you have a partner, 10-12× if there are children. The policy term is sized to the window until your youngest dependent is 18-22, which is why we return 20 or 30 years rather than something arbitrary.

Disability (LTD) targets a 60 % after-tax income replacement — the number almost every reputable advisor lands on because it tracks typical personal-expense ratios net of commuting, work clothing, and payroll taxes that disappear if you're not working. We subtract your reported employer coverage and surface the monthly shortfall a private policy would need to fill.

Auto liability is sized to your income tier (100/200, 250/500, or 500/1000 thousand dollar limits) because a jury award in a serious crash tracks your ability to pay — and uninsured/underinsured motorist is set to match it so you're never the best-insured party in your own accident. Home or renters is sized to replacement cost (not market value for homes, 12-15× monthly rent for renters' personal property). Umbrella triggers once your proxy net worth crosses roughly $200k — the point where a plaintiff's attorney starts caring about your assets, not just your base policy limits.

Takeaways

Three decisions that move the needle

Three insurance decisions move the needle more than every other combined. First: buy term life young. A healthy 30-year-old pays roughly one third of what a healthy 40-year-old pays for the same $500,000 20-year policy — the premium compounds against you every year you delay, and underwriting only gets harder.

Second: own-occupation long-term disability is the single highest-leverage insurance purchase most high-income professionals never make. Your lifetime earnings are usually your largest financial asset by a factor of ten; a $4,000/mo benefit at age 40 covers that asset until retirement for the price of a weekly dinner out.

Third: raise your deductibles on auto and home policies to the maximum your emergency fund can absorb. Insurance is for catastrophes, not fender benders. A $1,000 deductible versus a $250 one typically shaves 15-20 % off your premium and the carrier isn't subsidising your tolerance for small risk — you are. Pair high deductibles with a disciplined cash buffer and the math works forever.

One subtle trap: whole-life and indexed-universal-life policies are almost always sold, never bought. The embedded investment component looks compelling in a sales illustration but underperforms a plain term-plus-index-fund stack on after-fee IRR in roughly 95 % of simulations. If an agent leads with the "insurance plus savings" pitch, walk out and buy level term.

Questions we hear

Frequently asked questions

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Do I need umbrella insurance if I don't own a yacht?

Umbrella isn't about yachts — it's about jury awards. A rear-end collision with a passenger who suffers a herniated disc can produce a $1.5M settlement. Your auto liability caps at $250k or $500k; the gap comes out of your retirement savings. Umbrella bridges it for roughly $200-$400 per year per $1M of coverage. If your net worth plus future earnings exceeds your base liability limits, you want it.
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Is renters insurance really worth $15/month?

Yes, and almost all of the premium is actually buying you liability coverage, not reimbursement for your couch. If a guest trips in your apartment and sues, or a kitchen fire you caused spreads to a neighbour's unit, the liability coverage can pay seven-figure settlements. Replacement-cost coverage for your belongings is a bonus.
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Should I buy insurance through a broker or directly from the carrier?

Brokers (independent agents) represent multiple carriers and can quote 6-10 companies in one appointment — ideal for complex situations, bundles, and renewals. Captive agents (State Farm, Allstate, Farmers) represent one carrier and often get the best bundle discounts within that house. Use the Broker-vs-Captive checklist above to pick the fit for YOUR situation.
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How is my data handled?

The estimator runs entirely in your browser. We do not transmit your income, savings, or dependent information to our server. The downloadable PDF is assembled client-side via jsPDF. Nothing is persisted to a database, our analytics, or any third party. Close the tab and the inputs are gone.
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