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AT&T denied it. Asurion decided it. CNA underwrites it.

Protect Advantage is sold by AT&T, administered by Asurion Protection Services, and underwritten by Continental Casualty Company — CNA. Three companies touch your claim; the denial names only one of them. This page is the AT&T sheet and the sequence, including the fact that makes AT&T claims different: this is insurance in the legal sense, and your state regulator has a door for it.

The AT&T numbers

RuleProtect Advantage
Price$16 / $19 / $25 per line by tier (for 4: $45–$50/mo)
Screen / back-glass repair$0 service fee, eligible devices, current program (2021 brochure: $29) · 12-month repair warranty · parts may be refurbished/non-original
Replacement deductibleBy device tier: $25 / $100 / $225 / $275 / $300 / $400 (tiers 1–6)
Claim limit3 per consecutive 12 months (for 1) · $2,500 max device value per claim · prior AT&T plan claims carry forward · for 4: 8 shared
Filing windowLoss/theft: 60 days · Damage: your documents control
Replacements"AT&T Certified Restored" — may be previously opened/used; colors and features not promised
TheftPolice report case number required

From AT&T's published legal terms and brochures — checked Oct 20, 2026.

The SIM sentence, AT&T edition

The most-quoted AT&T denial in the wild is the active-line rule: a theft denied because "an AT&T SIM wasn't in the phone during the time of theft" — the customer summarizing it as insuring "the phone number and not the device." If that is your denial, your counter is the carrier's own device-activity record; the full play is on the active-line page. Note also that the letter will say Asurion, not AT&T — which is why AT&T customers' denial searches name Asurion: the denial teaches them the administrator's name.

The fight sequence

  1. Decode the reason and fix its fact (the decoder).
  2. Supervisor review at Asurion (file at phoneclaim.com/att or 888-562-8662).
  3. BBB complaint — answered by Regulatory Affairs.
  4. State insurance regulator — name the underwriter (CNA) in the complaint; it changes the paperwork's path.
  5. AT&T executive relations — with the premium history and any store misstatement.

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The working papers for this fight

The pages above are the map. The kit is the paperwork: the trap map, the tables, the decoder, the complaint packs, and the worksheets that keep every number and clock in front of you.

Included in the $39 PhoneClaimDecoded Kit

  • The AT&T tier card: six tiers, the filing windows, and the carry-forward rule on one page
  • The denial decoder and ladder packets, AT&T-addressed with the underwriter named where it counts
  • The Certified Restored file: AT&T's own replacement terms quoted against what arrived
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