Question

The insured owns an older home with lath and plaster walls. Following a kitchen fire, the insurance company pays to have the wall replaced with drywall that is just as functional, but costs less than lath and plaster. Which loss valuation allows the insurance company to have plaster replaced with drywall?

Answer 1

Answer is Functional Replacement Cost.

Refer below.

Step-by-step explanation:

Functional Replacement Cost — the cost of procuring another thing of property that will play out a similar capacity with equivalent productivity, regardless of whether it isn't indistinguishable from the property being supplanted.

Answer 2

Functional Replacement Cost.

Explanation: Functional Replacement Cost is the cost of acquiring another equipments which has the capacity of performing the same functions as the one being replaced. In this case,the equipment acquired may not be similar to the one which it is aimed at replacing.

Functional replacement policy is a policy or product of Insurance companies which helps subscribers to be able to replace such items which may have been destroyed by fire or other accidents.