Movers Insurance - a good idea?

[John B.]

The moving company's insurance also often helps if the movers damage the building at either end of the move. When I moved a couple years ago, the movers punched two fist-sized holes in the drywall moving a desk up a stairway. As an insured, interstate move, I just contacted the moving company and they sent out their local repair contractor to patch the holes...a lot easier for me than trying to find someone in a new city to do it (actually, I would have done the repairs myself had it not been for the insurance).