[Anonymous]

oh thank you for that as I did have a look on the internet and they were so expensive.

sarah
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[tishwishParticipant]

Hi

The insurance claim rolls on and on. Had several letters from the insurance underwriters asking for more information, all sought out and given. The main stumbling block seems to be that the airline tickets we purchased were non refundable………….so the airline wont refund. Well thats ok because we are claiming on our travel insurance………they now not sure if we are covered on insurance because we have non refundable tickets.

The saga rolls on and round and round…………

Spoke to them again today………drew a blank!!!!

We will wait and see what happens next

Love Trish x

[JohnKellyParticipant]

Trish

Many thanks for your posts on your insurance claim problems. I hate filling in forms, they always seem designed to prevent you entering any real and relevant facts, drives me mad. So you have my sympathies. I would have thought that the cost of (non-refundable) airline tickets was exactly what the insurance should be covering for you.

I haven't checked the forum for some weeks, I apologise for that. I've been waiting to see my doctor at Kings, London, and haven't been motivated to progress travel issues prior to this. OK, saw them yesterday, bone marrow biopsy results look good, so I'm now ready to take an interest again. In spite of the struggle you are having, I'm probably going to sign up with World First. On the grounds that most insurance firms make claims difficult, so maybe World First are not unusually bad, other firms would be just as bad. And we are travelling to Galway next week, so I need to get something in place quickly.

ps, I should revise my profile picture; my hair has started to grow back a little.

thanks and regards
John K

[DebsParticipant]

We used World First….no health issues to claim for thank god, but we did have a broken camera which they paid for no problems.
Debs

[PerkymiteParticipant]

My wife works in an insurance brokers, retired now so does not do any selling or advising – not allowed by FSA rules. However we have always used City Bond but we have never had to make a claim!

The reason I write is to give you a piece of advice I was given early on by an Insurance underwriter. And, that was :

[i]Before filling in an [u]application[/u] form go to your Doctors and ask him to print out your medical record. Then go through it line by line with your Doctor highlighting which you should declare and which you should not[/i].

He said most claims were rejected because people think the fact that they had an illness two years ago does not matter. IT DOES. You need to go back 5 years minimum was his advice .

We do this every time now.

kindest regards – vasbyte

David

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