All of them do.
In most countries, insurance companies will only pay out if a registered plumbing contractor has done the job and caused damage. This way its easier for insurance companies to stop insurance fraud because the damage caused by the plumber will be backed up by invoices and service agreements. To save yourself the headache, and the possibilities of causing damage to your house, if you can afford the cost call a registered plumber to do the job.
No.
income taxes ? no insurance payments are exempt
No.
Sure, you can make a claim for the damage done to the car if you have physical damage coverage. As for the home, only your home insurance will pay for the damage to the house. The house insurance will not pay for a car and an auto policy will not pay for a house. Even if the same incident gets both.
No. If there are no mortgage requirements that you carry insurance then it is completely up to the home owner.
Content house insurance covers the items, or content, of the home itself. It does not cover the home as a structure and you will need separate insurance for that.
Normally when you buy a house, you will be required to get home owner's insurance and pay a deductible. If you can pay the deductible, you may lose your homeowners insurance.
The amount you should expect to pay for house contents insurance will vary depending on the value of the items you desire to be covered by that insurance. Luckily, there are numerous "calculators" available on the web that you can use to make a list of your covered items and get an estimated amount of what you can expect to pay in insurance for those items.
Yes. If you pay cash for your house then you do not have to buy insurance. The only time you have to buy insurance on a house is if you take out a mortgage, the lender will probably require you to have insurance. That is in case the place burns down, it protects the banks collateral.
Actually, the home owner pays the home owner's insurance. The lender has an escrow account. This is in additional to the payment of interest and repayment of principal. The escrow account pays the taxes and insurance. The escrow account pays the taxes so the government does not seize the property. The homeowners insurance pays in case the house burns down. So, you pay into the escrow account, and if your house burns down, the lender gets the insurance money. You would not pay a mortgage on a burned down house and the bank knows that, so they have you pay into the escrow account and they pay for the insurance.