Trip Cancellation policy wording for Travelex Insurance Services TraveLite
TRIP CANCELLATION
You are covered for the amount purchased for Published
Penalties and unused non-refundable prepaid expenses for
Travel Arrangements, whenever You are prevented from taking
a Covered Trip for any of the following reasons that occur
after the Effective Date of Your Protection Plan:
- Any serious Injury or any unforeseen serious
Sickness:
- occurring to You, Your Business Partner or a
Traveling Companion, which is so disabling as to cause
a reasonable person to delay, cancel, or interrupt
their trip;
- occurring to Your Family Memberor
Traveling Companion's Family Member that
is considered life threatening or requiring
hospitalization; or
- occurring to Your Family Member or
Traveling Companion's Family Member
requiring immediate care. The cause of cancellation
must be as the result of medically imposed restrictions
as certified by a Legally Qualified Physician at the
time of loss preventing Your continued participation in
the Covered Trip;
- Your death, the death of Your Family Member,
Business Partner or Your Traveling Companion
or a Family Member of Your Traveling
Companion;
- Unforeseen Bankruptcy or financial Default of a
Travel Supplier (other than the travel agency or
organization from whom You purchased the Travel
Arrangements) which stops service after Your Covered
Trip departure or more than 14 days following Your
Protection Plan Effective Date. This coverage applies
only if it was purchased within 21 days from the date
the initial deposit is paid on the Covered Trip;
- An Organized Labor Strike that causes complete
cessation of travel services for at least 48
consecutive hours;
- Unforeseen Inclement Weather which causes complete
cessation of services of Your Common Carrier for at
least 24 hours;
- Employer termination or layoff, through no fault of
yours, affecting You or a person(s) sharing the same
room. Employment must have been with the same employer
for at least three (3) consecutive years;
- A Terrorist Incident in Your city of departure or
destination occurring after the policy Effective Date,
if You are scheduled to arrive in that city within 30
days following the Terrorist Incident;
- You or Your Traveling Companion being hijacked,
quarantined, called for jury duty, or called for a
court ordered appearance as a witness (except law
enforcement officers) in a legal action in which You or
Your Traveling Companion is not a party;
- Residence of You or Your Traveling
Companion,including Your Covered Trip
destination accommodations, is rendered
uninhabitable for unforeseen circumstances;
(continued as printed in your
Evidence of Coverage)
All cancellations must be reported to the Travel Supplier within 72
hours of the event causing the need to cancel unless the event
prevents it, and then as soon as is reasonably possible. If the
cancellation is not reported within the specified 72-hour period, The
Company will not pay for additional charges which would not have
been incurred had You notified the Travel Supplier in the specified
period. If the event prevents You from reporting the cancellation, the
72-hour notice requirement does not apply; however, and You must, if
requested, provide proof that said event prevented You from reporting
the cancellation within the specified period.
GENERAL EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Benefits are not payable for Sickness, Injuries or
losses of You, Your Traveling Companion, Business Partner
or Family Member:
- resulting from suicide, attempted suicide, or any
intentionally self-inflicted Injury while sane or
insane;
- resulting from hostilities or an act of declared or
undeclared war;
- while participating in maneuvers or training
exercises of an armed service;
- while riding, driving or participating in races, or
speed or endurance contests;
- while mountaineering (engaging in the sport of
scaling mountains generally requiring the use of picks,
ropes or other special equipment);
- while participating as a member of a team in an
organized sporting competition;
- while participating in skydiving, hang gliding,
bungee cord jumping, deep sea diving or scuba diving
(unless You hold an open water diving certificate or
You are accompanied by a dive master and not diving
deeper than 130 feet);
- while piloting or learning to pilot or acting as a
member of the crew of any aircraft;
- received as a result or consequence of being
Intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled
substance unless administered on the advice of a
Legally Qualified Physician;
- to which a contributory cause was the commission of
or attempt to commit a felony or being engaged in an
illegal occupation;
- resulting from a governmental regulation or
prohibition;
- unless You or Your Traveling Companion are
Medically Fit to travel at the time of purchase of
coverage;
- relating to a diagnosed Sickness from which no
recovery is expected and for which only palliative
treatment is provided and which carries a prognosis of
death within 12 months of the policy Effective
Date;
- resulting from non-physical Sickness such as
mental, nervous, emotional or personality disorders in
any form whatsoever unless the affected person is
hospitalized for 3 consecutive days or more after the
certificate Effective Date;
- due to normal childbirth, normal pregnancy (except
complications of pregnancy) or voluntarily induced
abortion;
- for dental treatment (except as coverage is
otherwise specifically provided herein);
- where coverage has been purchased for travel to or
through a city or country of destination under a travel
warning issued by the United States Department of State
at the time this insurance is purchased and the
Sickness, Injury, death, loss or delay was a direct
result of the incidents surrounding the travel
warning;
- resulting from the intentional release of a
biological material;
- where the purpose of travel is for You or Your
Traveling Companion to receive medical care, medication
or treatment.
Maximum Limit of Liability: All limits
are applied per trip. The Company's maximum limit of
liability resulting from the same occurrence will be
$10,000,000. If the loss for all insureds from such an
occurrence exceeds $10,000,000 the Company will pay each
Insured that proportion of the benefits stated which
$10,000,000 bears to the total loss of all persons insured
under all travel and flight insurance in force under this
certificate. The Company will pay no more than $1,000,000
per occurrence to or on account of any person insured.
PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS EXCLUSION
This exclusion applies to Trip Cancellation/Interruption
and Emergency Medical Benefits.
The program does not cover losses or expenses if they
result from:
- Any injury to You or Your Traveling Companion, Your
Business Partner or Your Family Member occurring prior
to and including the Effective Date;
- Any sickness of You or Your Traveling Companion,
Your Business Partner or Your Family Member occurring
during the 90 days prior to and including the Effective
Date for which treatment by a Legally Qualified
Physician has been sought or advised or for which
symptoms exist which would cause a prudent person to
seek diagnosis, care or treatment.
If You have purchased a program where pre-existing
conditions are waived, the Company covers these
pre-existing conditions provided:
- The protection plan was purchased within twenty-one
(21) calendar days of the initial Covered Trip
payment;
- On the date of purchase of the protection plan, You
were Medically Fit;
- You had not filed a claim for Trip
Cancellation/Interruption due to sickness or injury
within 90 days prior to the purchase of the protection
plan;
- You do not have a sickness excluded by General
Exclusions "m)" and "n)";
- The pre-existing condition exclusion applies to all
amounts over the Maximum Waiver Amount shown on the
Confirmation of Coverage except for Medical
Evacuation/Repatriation benefits which are not subject
to the Maximum Waiver Amount.
If You do not meet the above criteria, You will still be
covered for Trip Cancellation/Interruption and Emergency
Medical Benefits caused by reasons other than those related
to the pre-existing condition.
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