Cancel For Medical Reasons can reimburse a traveler to cancel their trip due to an unforeseen illness, injury, or death of the traveler, a traveling companion, or a non-traveling family member.
TRIP CANCELLATION
We will pay you up to the maximum amount shown in the schedule of benefits for cancellation penalties incurred by you or your traveling companion for a covered trip cancelled up to the date and time of the scheduled departure date due to any of the following unforeseen events:
Health and Family
a. Any sickness, injury or death;
1. Occurring to you, your traveling companion or a family member traveling with you. Sickness or injury must be so disabling as to cause a reasonable person to cancel their covered trip which results in medically imposed restrictions as certified by a physician at the time of loss preventing your participation in the covered trip. You, your traveling companion, or the family member must be examined in person or via telemedicine technology by a physician within seventy‐two (72) hours of the cancellation, and the physician must advise you or your traveling companion to cancel the trip;
2. Occurring to a family member not traveling with you that is considered life‐threatening, as certified by a physician or they require your immediate care, or which results in the family member’s death. Such injury or sickness must be so disabling as to reasonably cause a covered trip to be canceled and must be certified by a physician via an in‐person examination or via telemedicine technology;
c. You or your traveling companion being quarantined at your or your traveling companion’s home.
TRIP INTERRUPTION
We will pay you up to the maximum amount shown in the schedule of benefits for loss(es) incurred by you or your traveling companion for a covered trip interrupted after the date and time of departure due to any of the following unforeseen events:
Health and Family
a. Any sickness, injury or death;
1. Occurring to you or your traveling companion or a family member traveling with you. Sickness or injury must be so disabling as to cause a reasonable person to interrupt their covered trip which results in medically imposed restrictions as certified by a physician at the time of loss preventing your continued participation in the covered trip. You or your traveling companion or the family member must be examined in person or via telemedicine technology by a physician during the covered trip and the physician must advise you or your traveling companion to interrupt the trip;
2. Occurring to a family member not traveling with you that is considered life‐threatening, as certified by a physician, they require your immediate care. Such disability must be so disabling as to reasonably cause a covered trip to be interrupted and must be certified by a physician; via an in‐person examination or via telemedicine technology;