Home (contents) insurance for a Brit in Taiwan

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
#1

I’ve searched for information on contents insurance in Taiwan, but there are scant threads on it, and those are pretty old. I know Taiwanese are laissez-faire about contents insurance, but I assume most foreigners have it.

Ideally I want to use a UK company. There’s plenty of companies with policies for all those Brits moving to Spain and France (20,000 a year just to France!), but nothing much else. I guess the most expensive thing I will have will be a laptop, but it would be nice to know it is covered for theft, fire, accidents, mad sars infected dragon attacks etc.

So what’s everyone using?

#2

It doesn’t seem to exist in Taiwan. I’ve been here over a decade without finding it. We gave up after asking a couple of friends working for different insurance companies; they had never heard of it. I have never heard of anyone else having it either, so unless there’s been a change lately, you can still only insure your stuff if you own the apartment/house you live in.

#3

Is there something on the American Express website?

americanexpress.com/taiwan/P … home.shtml

#4

Thanks for the replies fellas. I think I will just phone a few UK insurers and see what they offer, since I don’t really want to go through a Taiwanese insurer or American Express.

If I have success, I will post the results here for others.