Warranties Industry Competitors

Protecting you against those pesky domestic disasters, American Home Shield (AHS), a subsidiary of The ServiceMaster Company, provides homeowners with home warranty plans. These cover home repairs; the replacement of electrical, plumbing, and heating and cooling systems; and the breakdown of major home appliances....

If Fido gets really sick, this company may be the one to call. Domestic & General Group (D&G) provides warranties on household appliances and provides pet health insurance and call center services. Boasting coverage of 6 million appliances and the processing of roughly 1 million claims per year, D&G's subsidiaries and affiliated companies include Domestic & General Services Limited, Domestic & General Insurance PLC, Pet Protect Limited (offers pet health care plans), Inkfish Services Limited (handles outsourcing including direct mail for clients), and Inkfish Call Centres Limited (supplies inbound and outband call center services)....

It's like WD-40 for your home: Home Buyers Warranty (better known as 2-10 HBW) eases the pain of home systems repair. Home Buyers Warranty provides builders, manufacturers, homeowners, and real estate professionals with warranty products for new, manufactured, and modular homes....

Through Interstate National Dealer Services, car dealers can offer extended warranties and service contracts to their customers. Available through new and used car dealers in the US and Canada, the contracts supplement or replace manufacturers' warranties and range in length from three months to seven years....

N.E.W. can make your broken items work like new again. N.E.W. Customer Service Companies offers extended service contracts and buyer protection plans for major financial services firms, manufacturers, retailers, and utilities companies in the US, serving some 150 million consumers annually....

Ready to pay for peace of mind? The Warranty Group hopes you will. Formerly Aon Warranty Group, the company provides consumer protection products and outsourced customer services. Its offerings include extended warranty programs and repair agreements for automobiles and powersports, consumer electronics, appliances, computers, fitness equipment, household systems, and travel services....

For those sweet cars that turn out to be sour lemons, Automobile Protection Corporation (APCO) sells lemon aid. The company offers extended-care warranties (under the EasyCare brand) and service contracts for new and used vehicles, including cars, pickups, and recreational vehicles....

Caveat emptor! To aid in your vigilance, there's CARS Protection Plus. The company sells extended warranties on used cars through registered auto dealers. CARS Protection Plus was hailed as one of Entrepreneur magazine's top 100 fast-growing small businesses in 2003, but ran into legal trouble in 2004 when the state attorney general's office in Pennsylvania filed suit against it for failing to honor warranties and for misrepresenting important terms of its warranty products....

So, you passed on that extended warranty? Well, don't come crying to Warrantech when your DVD player goes on the fritz. Warrantech provides extended warranty services to distributors, retailers, and manufacturers of such items as automobiles, automotive components, appliances, consumer electronics, computers, office equipment, and residential HVAC systems....