The Silver Lining™

Identity Theft Resolution Service

West Bend offers Home and Highway® customers powerful identity protection and identity theft resolution services when you purchase the Identity Protection Program!

If you’re a victim of identity theft, resolution can be emotionally taxing, time consuming, and potentially expensive. It’s difficult to know where to begin or how to navigate through the maze created by the legal, financial, and credit institutions.

For a very nominal premium, West Bend’s Identity Protection Program protects you in two ways:

  1. It provides identity protection services that can help you avoid identity theft, as well as rapid and effective one-on-one assistance to help resolve identity theft-related problems.
  2. It provides up to $30,000 per occurrence in expense reimbursement coverage if you incur expenses related to the resolution of an identity theft.

You also have access to these comprehensive identity protection services:

If you're looking to prevent the fraudulent creation of new credit accounts, a fraud specialist will place a fraud alert on the files maintained by the three major credit bureaus with Proactive Identity Protection Services.

If you’re a victim of identity theft, Identity Resolution Services will provide you with one-on-one unlimited access to a fraud specialist who will help you restore your credit and good name.

Travel Identity Protection and Recovery Services are available to help you prepare for travels, as well as to provide worldwide access to a fraud specialist if you need help while traveling.

If you're the victim of a disaster, such a fire, tornado, flood, or earthquake, a fraud specialist is assigned to help quickly recapture destroyed documentation needed to rebuild your life with the Disaster Recovery Assistance.

With Medical Identity Recovery Assistance, a fraud specialist will help undo the damage from fraudulently-filed insurance claims and/or bogus medical services obtained in your name.

Identity Relocation Protection Assistance helps protect you if you move. Your fraud specialist will help safeguard financial, credit, and identity data during the move.

Active-duty military personnel, especially those stationed abroad, can take advantage of Military Identity Assistance.

If you’re planning your wedding, just got married, are legally separated, or newly divorced, Marriage Identity Protection Assistance offers a variety of services for these stages of your life.

Parents and guardians of minor children are at heightened risk. With advocate-assisted, protective credit file suppression offered through the Child Risk Identity Protection Assistance, misuse of a child's personal information is prevented.

Surviving spouses can use Estate Identity Protection Assistance to help safeguard the identity of your departed spouse from potential misuse by identity thieves.

Through all of these programs, West Bend's Identity Protection Program provides unlimited, one-on-one access to highly-experienced fraud specialists who will act as personal advocates for a wide range of identity-compromising situations. These specialists will help you restore your credit and good name.