Travel Insurance Glossary
Europe
Worldwide (excluding USA)
Worldwide (including USA)
Two adults and all of their children (including foster children) aged 17 and under if in full time education. All persons must live at the same address. Each adult can travel independently, however, all insured children must travel with at least one of the insured adults.).
Note: If you are divorced or separated and your children do not live permanently with you they can still be covered under this policy.
A trip that takes place during the period of insurance which begins when you leave home and ends when you get back home or to a hospital or nursing home in your home country, whichever is earlier.
For Single-Trip cover:
You will only be covered if you are aged 64 or under at the date your policy was issued. - any other trip which begins after you get back is not covered. - a trip which is booked to last longer than 180 days is not covered. - you will only be covered for taking part in winter sports activities when the extra premium has been paid and this is shown on your insurance confirmation email.
For Backpacker cover:
You will only be covered if you are aged 35 or under at the date your policy was issued. - any other trip which begins after you get back is not covered. - a trip which is booked to last longer than 365 days is not covered. - you will only be covered for taking part in winter sports activities when the extra premium has been paid and this is shown on your insurance confirmation email
For single trip and backpacker cover:
Cancellation cover begins from the issue date shown on your insurance confirmation email and ends at the beginning of your journey. The cover for all other sections starts at the beginning of your journey and finishes at the end of your journey.
For annual multi-trip cover:
Cancellation cover begins on the start date shown on your insurance confirmation email or the date you booked your journey, whichever is the later and ends at the beginning of your journey. The cover for all other sections starts at the beginning of your journey and finishes at the end of your journey.
For single trip, backpacker and annual multi-trip cover:
All cover ends on the expiry date shown on your insurance confirmation email, unless you cannot finish your journey as planned because of death, injury or illness or there is a delay to the public transport system that cannot be avoided. In these circumstances, we will extend cover free of charge until you can reasonably finish that journey.