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Trip Cost*- Trip Cancellation

150% of Trip Cost-Trip Interruption

Pays this benefit up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits if a Trip is canceled or interrupted due to any of the following Unforeseen circumstances:
· Sickness, injury, or death of you, your Family Member, Traveling Companion, or Business Partner. Cancellation due to an injury or Sickness of a Family Member must be because their condition is life-threatening, or because the Family Member requires your or a Traveling Companion's care;
· Sickness, Injury, hospitalization, or death of the Insured's Host at Destination. A Physician must certify the Injury or Sickness;
· Financial Default of an airline, cruise line, or tour operator resulting in the complete cessation of services. This coverage applies only if: (1) you purchased this coverage within 15 days of initial trip payment; and (2) the Financial Default occurs more than 14 days after your coverage effective date;
· The Insured or Travel Companion is involuntarily terminated or laid off, provided that he or she has been an active employee for the same employer for at least one year. Termination must occur following the effective date of coverage. This provision is not applicable to temporary employment, independent contractors or self-employed persons;
· You or your Traveling companion is required to work during his/her scheduled Trip. He/she must provide proof of requirement to work, such as a notarized statement signed by an officer of his/her employer;
· You or your Traveling Companion is directly involved in a merger, acquisition, government required product recall, or bankruptcy proceedings and must be currently employed by the company that is involved in said event;
· Your or your Traveling Companion's company is deemed to be unsuitable for business due to burglary, or Natural Disaster and the Insured or Traveling Companion is directly involved as a Key Employee of the disaster recovery team.
· Inclement Weather causing cancellation or interruption of travel;
· Strike resulting in the complete cessation of travel services at the point of departure or Destination;
· Your Primary Residence or Destination being made uninhabitable by vandalism, burglary, or Natural Disaster;
· You or your Traveling Companion being subpoenaed, required to serve on a jury, hijacked, or quarantined;
· You or your Traveling Companion being called into active military service or having leave revoked or being reassigned;
· Mechanical/equipment failure of a Common Carrier that occurs on a scheduled Trip and causes complete cessation of the Insured's travel and results in a Loss of 50% of the Insured's Trip length;
· A Terrorist Incident in a City listed on your itinerary within 30 days of your scheduled arrival.
"City" means an incorporated municipality having defined borders and does not include the high seas, uninhabited areas, or airspace.
"Family Member" means the Insured's, or Traveling Companion's spouse, Domestic Partner, Child, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, brother, sister, mother, father, grandparents, grandchild, step-child, step-brother, step-sister, step-parents, parents-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, legal guardian, Caregiver, legal ward or Domestic Partner of any of the above.

"Financial Default" means the total cessation of operations due to insolvency, with or without the filing of a bankruptcy petition by a tour operator, cruise line, or airline provided the Financial Default occurs more than 14 days following your effective date for the Trip Cancellation Benefits. There is no coverage for the Financial Default of any person, organization, agency or firm from whom you purchased travel arrangements supplied by others.
"Sickness" means an illness or disease diagnosed or treated by a physician.


$750 Trip Interruption-Return Air Only
Reimburses the additional airline transportation expenses up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits incurred by you to reach the return destination for Trip Interruptions due to one of the Unforeseen events listed above. However, the benefit payable above will not exceed the cost of economy airfare (or same class of your original tickets) by the most direct route, less any refunds paid or payable.

$750 Trip Delay(Maximum of $150 per day)
Reimburses up to $150 a day to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits for Reasonable, Additional Expenses for meals, accommodations, taxi fares, and essential phone calls, if your Trip is delayed for more than 5 hours due to covered reasons.

$250 Missed Connection
Reimburses this benefit up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits if Inclement Weather or Common Carrier causes cancellation or a delay of regularly scheduled airline flights for three or more hours to your point of departure.

Baggage Insurance Coverage

$1000- Baggage & Personal Effects Loss
Can reimburse you if your Baggage is lost, stolen, or damaged while on your Trip, subject to the Maximum Benefit. This coverage is in excess of any other coverage or indemnity.

$300 Baggage Delay
If your Baggage is delayed more than 12 hours, you can be reimbursed for the purchase of Necessary Personal Effects, subject to the Maximum Benefit.

Optional Coverages

Flight Guard
PLAN COST: $9 PER $100,000 OF COVERAGE
Coverage for accidental death or dismemberment that occurs when traveling on a regularly scheduled flight or charter, subject to the Maximum shown in the Schedule.

Car Rental Collision Coverage
PLAN COST: $9 PER CAR PER DAY
$35,000 in primary coverage, subject to a $250 deductible. Covers collision damage to a rental car for which the car rental contract would hold you responsible.

Medical Upgrade Coverage
SEE PRICING CHART FOR PLAN COST
Valuable addition to increase your coverage limit. Your Medical and Emergency Evacuation Benefits will double. Emergency Evacuation to the adequate licensed medical facility of the Insured's choice. Available globally, anytime you are more than 100 miles from home.

Cancel For Any Reason
PLAN COST: BASE PLAN COST X 1.4

Provides reimbursement of 50% of nonrefundable expenses if you decide to cancel for any reason up to 48 hours prior to departure.

Emergency Medical &
Other Insurance Coverage

$25,000 Medical Expense
Pays this benefit, up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits. Pays for necessary medical expenses incurred while on a Trip.

$500,000 Emergency Evacuation
Covers evacuation and transportation as directed by a Physician to the nearest adequate medical facility (home in the event of death or if medically required). Pays for special medical escort if recommended in writing by the attending Physician.

$10,000 Accidental Death & Dismemberment
Pays for loss of life or limb if it occurs within 365 days of an accident during your Trip.

PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS EXCLUSION:The Insurer will not pay for any Loss or expense incurred as the result of an injury, Sickness, or other condition of you, a Traveling Companion, Business Partner, or Family Member which, within the 180-day period immediately preceding and including your coverage effective date: first manifested itself or had symptoms which would have prompted a reasonable person to seek diagnosis, care, or treatment; or, for which care or treatment was given or recommended by a physician; or required the taking of prescription drugs or medicines, unless the condition for which the drugs or medicines are taken remains controlled without any change in the prescription drugs or medicines.Pre-Existing Medical Condition Exclusion Waiver: 1. You purchase the plan within 15 days of making your initial trip payment; 2. The amount of Trip Cancellation coverage purchased must equal the full cost of all pre-paid non-refundable Trip arrangements. The cost of any subsequent arrangement(s) added to the same Trip must be insured within 15 days of the date of payment or deposit for any subsequent Trip arrangement(s). Failure to do so may affect the pre-existing medical condition waiver; 3. You must be medically able to travel when you pay your plan cost. 4. Applies to the first $30,000 of Trip cost per person.

 


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