Travel Select

EMERGENCY EVACUATION and REPATRIATION OF REMAINS

The Company will pay for Covered Emergency Evacuation Expenses incurred due to an Injury or Sickness that occurs to You while You are on a Trip. Benefits payable are subject to the Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule for all Emergency Evacuations due to all Injuries from the same accident or all Sicknesses from the same or related causes during an overnight Trip with a Destination of at least 100 miles from Your Primary Residence.

Covered Emergency Evacuation Expenses are the Reasonable and Customary Charges for necessary Transportation, related medical services and medical supplies incurred in connection with Your Emergency Evacuation. All Transportation arrangements made for evacuating You must be by the most direct and economical route possible and required by the standard regulations of the conveyance transporting You.

Expenses for Transportation must be:

(a) ordered by the onsite attending Physician who must certify that the severity of Your Injury or Sickness warrants Your Emergency Evacuation and adequate medical treatment is not locally available; and
(b) authorized in advance by the Travel Insurance Administrator. In the event Your Injury or Sickness prevents prior authorization of the Emergency Evacuation, the Travel Insurance Administrator must be notified as soon as reasonably possible.

The Company will also pay a benefit for reasonable and customary expenses incurred for an escort’s transportation and accommodations subject to the Escort Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule if an onsite attending Physician recommends in writing that an escort accompany the Insured.

Special Limitation: In the event the Travel Insurance Administrator could not be contacted to arrange for Emergency Evacuation, benefits are limited to the amount the Company would have paid had the Company or its authorized representative been contacted.

Emergency Evacuation - means:

(a) Transportation from the place where You are Injured or sick to the nearest adequate licensed medical facility where appropriate medical treatment can be obtained; or
(b) Transportation from a local medical facility to the nearest adequate licensed medical facility to obtain appropriate medical treatment if the onsite attending Physician certifies that additional Medically Necessary treatment is needed but not locally available; and You are medically able to travel; or
(c) Transportation to the adequate licensed medical facility nearest Your home to obtain further medical treatment or to recover, after being treated at a local licensed medical facility, and the onsite attending Physician determines that You are medically able to be transported; or
(d) Transportation from an adequate licensed medical facility to an adequate licensed medical facility of Your choice for further Medically Necessary treatment if the onsite attending Physician certifies that You are medically able to travel.

Advanced authorization by the Travel Insurance Administrator is needed for (a), (b), (c) and (d) above.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
In addition to the above covered expenses, if the Company has previously evacuated You to a medical facility, the Company will reimburse You Your airfare costs, less refunds from Your Unused transportation tickets, from that facility to Your Return Destination or home, within one year from Your original Return Date. Airfare costs will be based on medical necessity or same class as the Insured’s original tickets.

If You are hospitalized for more than 7 days following a covered Emergency Evacuation, the Company will reimburse You, subject to the limitations set out herein, the expenses for:

1. Return of Children: Return of Your Children, who were accompanying You when the Injury or Sickness occurred, to Your residence in the United States, including the cost of an attendant, if necessary. Such expenses shall not exceed the cost of a one-way economy airfare
ticket, or same class as the original ticket, less the value of any applied credit from any Unused return travel tickets for each person.
2. Bedside Visit: To bring one person chosen by You to and from the medical facility where You are confined if You are alone. The payment will not exceed the cost of one round-Trip economy airfare ticket.
3. Bedside Traveling Companion: The Company will reimburse You for reasonable expenses incurred for Hotel and meals shown in the Schedule for the Traveling Companion to remain near You. For an insured Child, a bedside companion is available immediately upon Hospital admission. Receipts must be submitted. Coverage for this benefit ends on the day You are discharged from the hospital. For purposes of this benefit, Traveling Companion means the person is Insured under this plan and accompanies the Insured on the Trip.

If you or a Traveling Companion are Hospitalized due to an Accidental Injury or Sickness that first occurred during the course of Your Trip beyond the date Your coverage ends, coverage under this benefit will be extended until You or Your Traveling Companion are released from the Hospital or until the Maximum Benefit as listed in the Schedule is paid.

REPATRIATION OF REMAINS

The Company will pay Repatriation Covered Expenses up to the Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule of Benefits to return Your body to the City of burial if You die during the Trip.

Repatriation Covered Expenses. include, but are not limited to, the reasonable and customary expenses for:

(a) embalming;
(b) cremation;
(c) the most economical coffins or receptacles adequate for transportation of the remains; and
(d) transportation of the remains, by the most direct and economical conveyance and route possible, subject to the Transportation Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule.

The Travel Insurance Administrator must make all arrangements and authorize all expenses in advance.

Special Limitation: In the event the Company or the Company’s authorized representative could not be contacted to arrange for Repatriation Covered Expenses, benefits are limited to the amount the Company would have paid had the Company or its authorized representative been contacted.