Insurance is a contract that most people buy on price and read after a disaster. I spent thirty-seven years on the other side of that, and I can tell you which exclusions actually get used, why underinsurance quietly halves your payout, and what a claim looks like from the moment you report it. I am not here to tell you insurers are villains or saints. I am here to tell you what the wording says before you need it to say something else.