Auckland insurance brokers
Insurance broker Auckland
Your premium is the same as going direct, because the insurer pays our commission. What changes is that someone reads the policy.
Kapi Insurance is an insurance broker in Auckland. We arrange personal insurance for the car in the driveway, the house, the contents, and the boat, bike or trailer parked behind it. Before you sign, we read the policy wording and tell you what the insurer will pay for, and where a future claim could get difficult.
Licensed broker
Personal insurance
Personal insurance
What personal insurance does a broker arrange?
Car, home, contents, boat, motorcycle and trailer cover, arranged with established insurers and checked against the policy wording before you sign. We do not arrange business or health insurance, so if you need those we will point you to someone who does.
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Car Insurance
Car insurance comes as comprehensive, third party fire and theft, or third party only, on agreed or market value. We check the excess and the exclusions before you sign, so the first surprise is not at claim time.
Compare car cover -
Home Insurance
Home insurance runs on full replacement or functional replacement, with natural disaster cover alongside NHCover (formerly EQCover). The sum insured gets reviewed so a rebuild does not come up short.
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Contents Insurance
Contents insurance covers the furniture, phones, laptops, tools and jewellery in your home. Renters and owners both get personal liability cover, and we check the limits before you sign.
Compare contents cover
Why use a broker?
Why use an insurance broker instead of going direct?
A broker reads your policy wording, checks the cover against what you own, and gets paid by the insurer rather than by you. A direct insurer sells only its own policy, and a comparison site sorts those policies by price. Neither has much reason to tell you what the wording leaves out. Your house is probably the largest asset you own, and the outcome that matters is what the insurer pays after a bad night. We look for exclusions like meth contamination in a landlord policy, or an agreed value nobody has revisited since the second-hand market moved.
Exclusions, read line by line
We read every exclusion, condition and limit before you sign, then explain the ones that could bite at claim time.
The gaps nobody chose
We check your sum insured, excess and NHCover entitlement. A gap is rarely a decision anyone made. It just never got revisited.
How we get paid
The insurer pays Kapi a commission when the policy is arranged, which is how brokers in New Zealand have always been paid. If a fee ever applies to a piece of work, you hear about it before we start.
| Feature | Direct Insurer | Comparison Site | Kapi Insurance |
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| Reads the wording with you | |||
| Checks gaps across insurers | |||
| Review at every renewal | |||
| Advice independent of the insurer | Own policies only | ||
| What you pay | Direct price | Direct price | Same as direct |
Reads the wording with you
- Direct Insurer
- Comparison Site
- Kapi Insurance
Checks gaps across insurers
- Direct Insurer
- Comparison Site
- Kapi Insurance
Review at every renewal
- Direct Insurer
- Comparison Site
- Kapi Insurance
Advice independent of the insurer
- Direct InsurerOwn policies only
- Comparison Site
- Kapi Insurance
What you pay
- Direct InsurerDirect price
- Comparison SiteDirect price
- Kapi InsuranceSame as direct
Process
How does buying insurance through a broker work?
Three steps. The paperwork is ours.
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Tell us what you own
Six checkboxes, your contact details, and a line about what needs covering. A couple of minutes, with no account to create.
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Reading comes before recommending
We compare what insurers offer for your situation, then explain what each policy leaves out. The cheapest quote is rarely the one that pays best.
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You accept, we arrange
The insurer issues the policy, and you deal with them directly if something goes wrong. We arrange the paperwork and pick the cover back up at renewal.
- Coverage area
- Nationwide
- Cover across New Zealand
- Location
- Local
- Auckland based broker
- Cover types
- Six
- Kinds of personal insurance
- Policy review
- Annual
- Review at renewal
Behind every front door on a street like this sits a policy schedule. Most have not been read since the day they were issued.
Who we help
Who we arrange cover for
A first home, a rental, a family that keeps outgrowing the car. People call at renewal, or the week after a storm has them reading their schedule. We check that the numbers still match what you own.
First home buyers
Settlement day comes with a list from the bank. Somewhere on it is a sum insured figure you have to justify, with NHCover (formerly EQCover) sitting behind the house cover. Plenty of first home buyers have not seen either before. We go through both.
Families
Insurers sell house, car and contents as one package, and the package price hides which part went up. At renewal we check each policy on its own, then line the dates up so nothing lapses between them.
Renters
The building is your landlord's problem. The laptop, the bike, the couch are yours. Contents cover handles those, and most policies include personal liability, which is the part that matters if you put a frying pan through a bench.
Young drivers
A first car is often worth less than a year of insuring it. Skipping cover is the wrong answer. Reading the excess properly is the right one, because a big excess on a cheap car means most small prangs come out of your own pocket.
Resources
Guides for the questions we get asked most
These started as phone calls. Someone asks what a broker does for the money, or why the renewal went up again. It is easier to write it down once than explain it every week.
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Why use an insurance broker?
What a broker does in New Zealand, and how the commission is paid.
Read the broker guide -
The insurance loyalty tax
Why the same policy gets more expensive at renewal, and what to say when you call.
Read the loyalty tax guide -
How to make a claim
What your insurer needs from you, and the order they need it in.
Read the claims guide -
Insurance glossary
Excess, sum insured, agreed value, indemnity. What the words on your schedule mean.
Read the glossary
Get a second pair of eyes on your policy
Get a free quote, or tell us what you already have if you are mid-policy. We read the wording, check that it still fits, and say so plainly if it is fine. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and the rest of New Zealand.
No obligation, and we will tell you if we cannot help.