Basic cover
- Injury to persons
- Property damage to third parties
- Employees included
- Retroactive cover (prior risk)
With personal liability insurance the first question on any claim is not what happened, but who is named on the policy.
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Personal liability insurance is a family policy. It insures not a person but a household: yourself, your partner, your children living at home and usually house guests and pets as well. If the make-up of that household changes, the cover changes with it, and that happens more often than people realise.
A child moving into student accommodation, a partner leaving, a parent moving in, an au pair who stays for a year: each of these is a moment at which the question arises whether someone is still an insured person. Some policies keep children who are studying away from home within the cover, others only for as long as they are unmarried and studying. We ask ASR about that situation expressly.
And do actually report changes. Your duty of disclosure when taking out the insurance is set out in Article 7:928 of the Dutch Civil Code, and Article 7:930 of the Dutch Civil Code governs what happens if the insurer would have decided differently on a correct disclosure. A family policy in the name of a partner who has since left is exactly that sort of case.
We compare your personal liability insurance (AVP) across dozens of insurers, explain where the real differences lie, and arrange the switch from start to finish — without you having to chase it yourself.
Personal liability insurance (AVP)
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Get coveredThe structure of the cover in three parts, with an overview per situation below.
The basic cover insures the essentials. We show what ASR and other insurers offer here.
On top of that to damage to third parties, employers' and product liability and damage during work at the client's premises.
The most complete cover. We compare ASR's extended versions with the market.
What is covered
| Situation | Standard | With extension |
|---|---|---|
| Your child breaks a window at the neighbours' | Yes | Yes |
| Your dog bites a passer-by (6:179 DCC) | Yes | Yes |
| Damage to a rented holiday home | Provided that | Provided that |
| Damage to property in your care (care, custody and control) | No | Provided that |
| Damage caused with a motor vehicle (Article 2 WAM) | No | No |
| Damage caused intentionally (7:952 DCC) | No | No |
Personal liability insurance (AVP) covers damage that you or a member of your household cause to someone else in a private capacity. Damage caused with a motor vehicle is not covered: the WAM applies to that. The care, custody and control exclusion excludes damage to property in your care, unless the policy provides an extension for it.
What we do
| What we do | At Finass | Direct with a.s.r. |
|---|---|---|
| Comparison across several insurers | Yes | No |
| Advice based on your own situation | Yes | Sometimes |
| One point of contact for claims | Yes | Sometimes |
| Cancellation with your current insurer arranged | Yes | No |
| We determine whether a.s.r. is the best choice | Yes | No |
| Advice fees for you as a customer | No | No |
This overview concerns our service, not the cover. What is actually covered is set out in the policy conditions and on the insurer's insurance card (verzekeringskaart); you receive both before you take out cover.
Insurers weigh these details differently. That is where your saving is.
We look at the terms as well as the premium, and stay your point of contact when there is a claim.
We are not tied to one insurer and compare on the basis of an objective analysis of several companies.
You call or email someone who knows your file. No menu options, no changing call centres.
We cancel your old policy and align the start date, so you are never a day without cover.
We report the claim and monitor how it is handled. In urgent cases you can reach us on the emergency line.
Customers rate our service on four aspects: personal service, service delivery, availability and the outcome. The reviews are collected and published by NH1816 and come from customers who have actually taken out a policy with Finass Advies B.V. or reported a claim.
Four points that make the difference between a policy that pays out and one that does not.
The policy names the policyholder, the family members living with them and often house guests and domestic staff while working for the family. Single-person cover is cheaper but excludes precisely that group. If you move in with someone or a parent comes to live with you, that is not an administrative formality but a change that determines the extent of the cover. Report it to ASR.
For children who study away from home, many sets of conditions have a separate provision: they remain covered as long as they are studying and do not run their own household. If your child starts work, moves in with a partner or rents a home of their own, that cover usually stops, even if they are still financially dependent on you. A policy of their own is then needed; we put that in place at the right moment.
Article 6:179 of the Dutch Civil Code places liability for damage caused by an animal with the keeper, even without any fault of their own. If your dog bites a passer-by, that is a strict liability: you cannot escape it by pointing out that the animal has never done anything before. The AVP catches this, but watch for exclusions for animals kept commercially or causing damage during breeding activities.
Loss a family member causes deliberately is excluded (Article 7:952 of the Dutch Civil Code), even where only that one person acted intentionally. In principle the policy does not pay for loss between family members: there is no third party on the other side. And damage involving a family member's motor vehicle runs through Article 2 of the Dutch Motor Insurance Liability Act (WAM), so through the motor policy, not through this insurance.
Retroactive cover (prior risk) Included for your staff during work.
This is what people ask us most.
Under most conditions, yes, as long as the child is studying and does not run their own household. The wording differs, though: some policies require the child to be unmarried, others set an age limit or stop as soon as there is a contract of employment. We check the exact provision and, where necessary, arrange a policy of their own so that no gap arises.
Usually not. Loss between insured people on the same policy is generally excluded, because there is no injured third party on the other side: the household would be paying itself. Some insurers make an exception for injury between family members. Damage to property between brothers and sisters remains at your own expense under virtually all conditions.
The insurance continues in the policyholder's name, but from the moment you actually separate the departing partner falls outside the group of insured people. So they need their own liability insurance. Report the change: under Article 7:928 of the Dutch Civil Code the information given has to match the actual situation.
Because the law holds you liable as the keeper for what the animal does, even without any fault on your part. That is a real risk with injury as a possible consequence. Insurers therefore ask about the breed, the number and the use, and exclude animals kept commercially. We disclose this in advance, so that the cover is not open to question.
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