Times when travel insurance has paid off for you

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Waterweight · 27/01/2025 15:12

Just that. Anybody had Experiance of travel insurance "working" & what was the result ?

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Strawberryfruitcorner · 27/01/2025 16:17

I also know someone who had a bad fall and was bed bound, they paid for all medical bills, and months in the hotel (4 star) plus medical assistance on flight home.

Strawberryfruitcorner · 27/01/2025 16:16

In one joyful holiday DPs luggage went missing. They covered him to go shopping for replacement clothing and personal items until it came back.

DC also got ill on same holiday and they covered trip to hospital to see a DR, taxis to and from hospital and medication.

Defiantlynot41 · 27/01/2025 16:16

Have worked in that industry, claims can range from a couple of hundred pounds for a lost camera to life-changing amounts for medical repatriation, intensive care in the US or Caribbean, repatriation of dead relatives, etc

Try googling the cost of helicopter evacuation from a ski slope, cancellation of a round the world cruise, cost of a heart attack and recuperation etc, you will be shocked

BarbaraKirksKaftan · 27/01/2025 16:15

Missed port cover on a cruise, we got £400 back (£100 per person).

Redrosesposies · 27/01/2025 16:13

The time when DH smashed his skull to pieces avoiding a motorbike that pulled out in front of him just 4 months after he retired from a 40 year accident free job as a truck driver.
We had two holidays coming up in quick succession. It was too late to cancel either and they paid out in full for both.
It was a travel pack with a bank but they won't cover him now as he's had a couple of 'heart incidents' since with no firm diagnosis.

Hayley1256 · 27/01/2025 16:11

My uncle had a heart attack on a plane, they had to divert to the closest airport, he was in a Spanish hospital for a few weeks. The insurance company paid all the fees plus accommodation costs for my aunt and cousins, food expenses etc whilst they were there and the flights back home. They would have been screwed without insurance

Pippa12 · 27/01/2025 16:09

I have no personal experience, but work on an intensive care unit. I have accepted multiple patients from all over the world who have been repatriated back after falling unwell on holiday.

They’d of been categorically fucked without it.

helpfulperson · 27/01/2025 16:02

They paid a £300 dental bill for me in Germany.

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