Patent ID: 8041636

Claim:
A system for monitoring and dynamically adjusting insurance coverage comprising: a processor for executing at least part of a process for monitoring and dynamically adjusting insurance coverage, the process for monitoring and dynamically adjusting insurance coverage comprising: defining one or more trigger events that identify purchased items as being potentially eligible for insurance coverage, wherein the one or more trigger events that identify purchased items as being potentially eligible for insurance coverage comprises two or more purchases of one or more items in a predefined time frame, the combined cost of the two or more purchases of one or more items totaling more than a predefined amount of money, the system being operable to consider as a possible trigger event each of whether a purchase of an item is from a predefined merchant, whether a purchase of an item is from a predefined merchant location and whether a purchase of an item costs more than a predefined amount of money; storing data representing the one or more trigger events; tracking a purchase of an item and collecting data associated with the purchase of the item; comparing the collected data associated with the purchase of the item with the stored data representing the one or more trigger events, and if there is a match between at least part of the collected data associated with the purchase of the item and at least part of the stored data representing the one or more trigger events, alerting a concerned party to the potential need to secure insurance coverage for the purchased item.