GRAND RAPIDS, MI, MICH., Dec. 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The holidays are a great time to brush up on home safety precautions and Foremost® wants to help you and your family stay safe. Foremost Insurance Group is a national specialty insurance carrier offering insurance for home, landlord and vacant, mobile home, auto, motorcycle, snowmobile and much more.
"A home is often one of the greatest investments a family will have and it's important to take a home inventory and practice safety tips, in case there is ever the need to submit a claim," says Jim Gontjes, senior product manager for Foremost. "We've gathered useful information to help consumers enjoy their home to the fullest and keep their families and personal belongings safe."
Complete a personal property inventory.
If your belongings are stolen or destroyed, most insurance companies will ask you to provide a record of them. Without a list or record of these items, important details are sure to escape you. Add the trauma and stress a major loss can cause, and inevitably, you'll forget something.
Know and understand fire safety tips for your family.
More than 500,000 house fires occur each year, in all types of homes – site-built and manufactured, making it the second leading cause of accidental death in the home. The most important part of fire safety is prevention. Foremost offers the following fire prevention and preparedness tips to help keep you safe:
Develop safe storage habits.
If you're finishing up pre-winter painting or touching up paint that's gotten marred, why not take time now to make sure that your storage habits are safe habits? Make sure to keep flammable paint supplies, glues varnishes and sprays away from all living areas. Also, keep antidotes for cleaning products and other poisons posted where these items are stored.
Foremost wants you to stay safe this holiday season. To learn more about Foremost products or to share feedback, visit www.Foremost.com, our blog at blog.foremost.com, our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ForemostInsurance, our Twitter page at www.Twitter.com/Foremost.
A part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies®, Foremost Insurance Group ("Foremost") has been a leader in personal lines insurance since 1952. Foremost is headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan. Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of more than 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders. Farmers Group, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, manages the non-claims insurance operations of the Farmers Exchanges. Farmers Group, Inc. is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or at www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.