February 27th, 2009
Natural disasters ? does your Travel Insurance cover you?
Reports of hundreds of fires sweeping across mainland Greece this
summer was a timely reminder that we can all be caught up in a
disaster, natural or man made, but certainly not of our own making.
Whilst the FCO will be giving out important travel advice and, in
extremis, will have contingency plans in place to extract British
nationals should it ever be deemed necessary, as occurred in 2006 in
the Lebanon, most of us will have to rely on tour operators and local
representatives to look after us when on holiday. This is where a good , a terrorist attack. Some policies provide cover for all
eventualities but you will have to pay a hefty premium for this and you
will have to weigh up the risks of it happening and whether you should
really be there in the first place if looking for cover at this end of
the travel insurance spectrum.