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Slingshot Insurance
Introducing Slingshot Insurance! Slingshot House & Contents Insurance is underwritten by Tower, a Kiwi born and bred insurance company with more than 150 years’ experience.
It's now super easy to bundle insurance with your Slingshot broadband plan. For every insurance policy you add, you can save $5 a month on your broadband bill. That means you could score a $10 monthly discount on your broadband bill when you add a House and Contents Insurance policy. Too easy!
The savings apply to new Slingshot services bundles only. Savings are off your broadband plan charges, starting from the first full billing period after bundle service is activated, and pro-rated to your chosen billing frequency. Bundles must remain active. Minimum contract term and exit fees apply to the broadband plan. Slingshot Insurance is backed by Tower (eligibility criteria apply). Full bundle Ts&Cs available here.
It’s easy to get cover,
and you could save.
Bundle up with Slingshot
Add Slingshot House and Contents insurance, power and mobile to save $35 a month on your broadband plan. The more you bundle, the bigger the discount.
We work your way
No more waiting on the phone, book a time that works for you. Talk to one of our friendly team members or, simply lodge your claim online. Easy!
Flexible billing
Pay your bills when it suits. Choose from weekly, fortnightly or monthly billing. You can even choose the day of the week that works for you!
Why bundle up with Slingshot?
Bundling makes things simple. You can keep on top of your services in one place with one, easy to manage bill. And with Slingshot, it also makes things more affordable. Bundle House and Contents Insurance and score a $10 monthly discount on your broadband plan or, a $5 discount when you bundle either House or Contents policies. Plus, we have great savings on things like power and mobile. The more you bundle, the bigger the discount!
Let’s get started
Slingshot Insurance is available to our eligible broadband customers. If you already have broadband with us, get insurance cover now to start saving! If not, click here to make the move to Slingshot broadband.
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Sign in to My SlingshotHouse, Contents and Landlord's House Insurance
When sudden accidental loss or damage occurs, House Insurance covers the cost to repair or rebuild your home, up to your selected level of cover, plus an extra 20% if the house is destroyed by fire.
House Insurance covers
Extended sum insured for fire - If your house is destroyed by fire, this benefit gives you up to 20% more cover than your sum insured. Excludes fires following natural disasters.
Sustainability upgrade - If your house is destroyed, we'll provide up to $15,000 for you to add or upgrade to sustainable products in your new house. Excludes natural disaster losses.
One event, one excess - If an event damages or destroys your contents and house, and you have both insured with Slingshot, you'll only pay one excess.
Compare the main benefits of our House Insurance Cover
The following table provides a summary of the main benefits.
Extended sum insured for fire
If your house is destroyed by fire, this benefit gives you up to 20% more cover than your sum insured. Excludes fires following natural disasters.
Sum insured plus 20%
Sum insured plus 20%
Sum insured plus 20%
Sustainability upgrade
If your house is destroyed, we'll provide up to $15,000 for you to add or upgrade to sustainable products in your new house. Excludes natural disaster losses.
Up to $15,000
Up to $15,000
Up to $15,000
One event, one excess
If one event damages or destroys your contents and house, and you have both insured with Slingshot, you'll only pay one excess. It’s the highest excess that will apply.
Natural disaster damage
If your home suffers natural disaster damage, which is more than the EQCover limit, we’ll pay the difference up to the sum insured.
Gradual damage to your house
We’ll repair damage to your home, which is caused over time by a leak or overflow from an internal water pipe, hose or tank.
Up to $1,000
Up to $2,000
Up to $3,000
Temporary accommodation
We'll cover the costs of temporary accommodation if your home suffers damage that makes it uninhabitable.
Up to $15,000
Up to $25,000
Up to $30,000
Keys and locks lost or stolen
We’ll organise the replacement of your keys or locks if they’re stolen, lost, or illegally duplicated, and you won’t need to pay an excess
Up to $500
Up to $1,000
Up to $2,000
Landscaping
You’re covered for damage to your lawn, flowers, trees, hedges or shrubs, caused by fire damage to your home, or impact damage to your home from a vehicle.
Up to $1,000
Up to $2,000
Up to $5,000
Removal of debris
We'll pay for the removal of debris when we've accepted a claim for loss to your home.
Carpets extended replacement
If you have matching carpet throughout your home and some of it’s damaged, if we can’t find a suitable match, we’ll replace the lot.
Liability protection
If there’s an accident at your home which causes damage to someone else’s property, we’ll cover you for your legal liability.
Up to $20m for physical damage
Up to $20m for physical damage
Up to $20m for physical damage
Choose between our cover options, to insure your contents in case they are lost, damaged or stolen.
Contents Insurance covers
Accidental damage anywhere in NZ
No matter where you are in NZ, if your contents are accidentally damaged, we’ll cover them. Some policy limits apply.
Replacement for damaged contents
If your contents are accidentally damaged, we will replace, repair or pay you their replacement value, up to your policy's limits.
Leisure and recreational equipment
We'll cover the things you love for accidental damage, like your surfboards, kayaks and camping equipment, up to your policy's limits.
Compare our Contents Insurance Cover
Replacement value
We’ll replace or repair your contents, up to the limits in your policy and your chosen sum insured amount
Accidental damage anywhere in NZ
We'll pay for loss to your contents anywhere in New Zealand.
Up to $5,000
Up to your sum insured
Up to your sum insured
One event, one excess
If one event damages or destroys your contents and house, and you have both insured with Slingshot, you'll only pay one excess. It’s the highest excess that will apply.
Mobile phone
We’ll cover your mobile phone if it’s damaged, lost or stolen
Up to $500
Up to $1,000
No single item limit
Jewellery - per item
Individual items of jewellery, or sets (for example, earrings) will be covered up to a limit. You need to tell us if you have items worth more than these limits, so we can make sure they’re fully covered. You’ll also need to pay extra to cover them.
Up to $1,000
Up to $2,500
Up to $10,000
Jewellery - total
This is the most that we’ll pay out at any one time, if you make a claim for your unspecified jewellery (jewellery that you haven’t listed on your policy).
Up to $5,000
Up to $15,000
Up to $30,000
Home office equipment
If you operate a business from your home, we’ll cover your home office furniture and equipment.
Up to $5,000 at your house, up to $750 away from your house
Up to $5,000 at your house, up to $1,500 away from your house
Prescription glasses and contact lenses
If your prescription glasses or contact lenses are damaged, lost or stolen, we'll repair or replace them. If you're one of our Everyday or Everyday Plus cover customers, you'll pay a reduced excess of $100.
Up to $1,000
Up to $5,000
Up to $10,000
Recreation and leisure equipment
We'll cover your leisure equipment like surfboards, kayaks, e-scooters or e-bikes and camping equipment as part of your policy.
Worth $500 or less
Worth $1,500 or less
Worth $2,000 or less
Keys and locks lost or stolen
We’ll organise the replacement of your keys or locks if they’re stolen, lost, or illegally duplicated, and you won’t need to pay an excess.
Up to $500
Up to $1,000
Up to $2,000
Contents in temporary storage
We’ll pay for loss to your contents while temporarily stored in a commercial storage facility.
Up to $20,000 (maximum 12 months)
Up to $20,000 (maximum 12 months)
Visitors' personal effects when they are staying with you
We’ll pay for loss of personal effects owned by visitors temporarily staying in your house provided they aren’t covered by any other policy.
Up to $500
Credit or debit card fraud
We’ll pay for financial loss from the fraudulent use of your credit or debit card, if you can’t reasonably recover it from anyone else.
Up to $1,000
Up to $1,000
University and boarding school cover for your children
Cover for loss that occurs to your children’s contents while they’re attending university, polytechnic or school (not a flatting situation).
Up to $5,000
Up to $5,000
Up to $10,000
Liability protection
If there’s an accident anywhere in New Zealand which causes damage to someone else’s property, we’ll cover you for your legal liability. The policy limits shown apply.
Up to $20m for physical damage
Up to $20m for physical damage
Up to $20m for physical damage
Landlord's House Insurance protects your investment property. It automatically includes benefits like deliberate tenant damage and tenant rental default. Policy terms and limits apply.
Landlord's House Insurance
Loss of rent if your rental property is made uninhabitable by your tenants. Policy terms apply.
Liability protection for both physical damage and bodily injury at the rental property. Policy limits apply.
Extended sum insured for fire
Repairs due to damage caused by methamphetamine contamination
Rental property's whiteware and window coverings owned by landlord. Policy limits apply.
Deliberate damage to your property by your tenants or their guests
Check out the benefits included in our Landlord's House Insurance Cover
Extended sum insured for fire
If your landlord property is destroyed by fire, this benefit gives you up to 20% more cover than your sum insured. Excludes fires following natural disasters.
Sum insured plus 20%
Deliberate damage caused by tenants or their guests
We’ll pay for deliberate damage caused by your tenants or their guests during the period of insurance to your house.
Up to $20,000 (additional $500 excess per event)
Loss of rent if your rental property is damaged
Up to eight months rent covered if your house is made uninhabitable by loss or damage covered under the policy while tenanted.
Up to 8 months' rent
Landlord’s whiteware and window coverings
Cover for loss of your landlord’s whiteware and window coverings, limited to curtains, drapes, blinds or similar window coverings, and whiteware or household appliances such as dishwashers, refrigerators and washing machines. We cover the second-hand value of these items, up to the coverage limit shown.
Up to $20,000
Sustainability upgrade
If your rental property is destroyed, we'll provide up to $15,000 for you to add or upgrade to sustainable products in your new property. Excludes natural disaster losses.
Up to $15,000
Gradual damage to your house
We’ll repair damage to your home, which is caused over time by a leak or overflow from an internal water pipe, hose or tank.
Up to $2,000
Bodily injury liability protection
If there’s an accident at your rental property which causes bodily injury to someone else, including your tenant, we’ll cover you for your legal liability.
Up to $100,000
Property damage liability protection
If there’s an accident at your rental property which causes damage to someone else’s property, we’ll cover you for your legal liability.
Up to $20m
Keeping Insurance simple for Kiwis.
Forget waiting on the phone for hours. Make your claim in minutes online, or book a time that works for you and we’ll be in touch.
Book a time
No more waiting on hold. Let us know when you are free, and we will call you.
Online claims
Lodge claims online, 24/7. For some claim types you may receive a decision in minutes.
We’re here for you
Our friendly team of Insurance experts is ready if you need to speak with us.
Make a claim
Lodge your claim online, 24/7 and we'll work through the details. If you need some assistance with this, help is always on hand.
Frequently asked questions
It’s important to insure your house for an amount enough to cover all the costs to rebuild your house. You should consider things like demolition costs, debris removal, professional fees and council fees.
If the house is unoccupied for up to 60 consecutive days, the house will still be covered and you won’t need to notify us. However, if your house is unoccupied for more than 60 days, an additional excess may apply if its been unoccupied for an extended period of time.
Our Essential, Everyday and Everyday Plus House Insurance policies are designed for owner-occupiers. If you’re looking to rent out your property, you will need our Landlord's insurance.
Our Landlord's insurance has some added benefits to protect your rental property like loss of rent and from damage caused by tenants.
Check out our Landlord's insurance.
Yes. If your house is damaged in an earthquake or natural disaster, our House Insurance covers you up to your sum insured for the cost to repair or rebuild your house. This includes some cover for retaining walls. If you have extensive garden retaining walls, a swimming pool or a tennis court you'll need to tell us about these, otherwise they won't be covered.
No. Contents Insurance only covers your items while they’re travelling within New Zealand. While they’re in New Zealand, you’re covered for loss or damage of your stuff up to $5,000 under our Essential policy, and up to the sum insured you choose under our Everyday and Everyday Plus policies.
No. Your Contents policy only covers items you own. Each flatmate should consider getting their own insurance to cover their own items.
Your Contents policy does cover your partner and any of your children you live with. Just make sure you include the value of their items in your policy.
All of our Contents policies cover mobile phones with up to $500 cover on our Essential Policy, up to $1,000 on our Everyday Policy and there's no limit on our Everyday Plus Policy.
If you have our Everyday or Everyday Plus policy and you need more cover on your phone, just let us know and we’ll increase the limit on your policy for an additional premium.
Yes. Our Contents policies cover your prescription glasses, sunglasses and contacts. We will repair or replace them if they are damaged, lost or stolen.
If you have an Essential Contents policy, you will be required to pay your excess. For Everyday or Everyday Plus Contents policies, claims for these items have a reduced excess of $100.
We strive to have these essential items replaced or repaired for you as quickly as possible given how important they are in your day to day life!
It can sometimes be quite difficult to figure out how much each item is worth, especially if you’ve owned it for a number of years.
It is helpful to look at the cost for similar items by considering the standard retail price (instead of looking at the price when it's on sale).
Feedback or complaints
If you would like to provide us with feedback about Slingshot insurance or if you're not happy with something to do with our insurance products, please get in touch and we'll do our best to fix it.
Things you should know
- Slingshot is the trading name of Callplus Services Limited. Slingshot is the insurance promoter and premium administrator, as an agent of Open Insurance Limited, the insurance provider and policy administrator. Tower Limited is the insurance underwriter. Open is Tower's underwriting agent and Open has appointed Slingshot to perform certain functions for it.
- Slingshot receives a commission from Open on sales and renewals of Slingshot Insurance policies.
- Your policy comes with a 15-day free look period, which means you can cancel it within 15 days of the start date so long as you’ve not made any claims.
- Insurance-related information on our website is of a general nature – it does not take into account your individual needs, objectives or financial situation, and is not intended as financial advice. First read the policy wording for the insurance cover you're interested in, to decide if the product is right for you.
- Savings (insurance bundle discounts) are applied to your Broadband charges from the start of the first full billing period after your policy is issued. The maximum available bundle discount will be an amount equal to your base Broadband plan charges. See the full Bundle Discount T&Cs.
- Policy Documents and other important information relating to Slingshot Insurance are available here.