Safe Travels Voyager
Trip Interruption
TRIP INTERRUPTION
The Company will reimburse You, up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits, subject to any applicable sub-limits, if You interrupt Your Trip after Your departure or if You join Your Trip after Your Scheduled Departure Date due to any of the following Unforeseen reasons that occur while this coverage is in effect for You:
1. Your Sickness, Accidental Injury or death, that results in medically imposed restrictions as certified by a Physician at the time of Loss preventing Your continued participation in the Trip. A Physician must advise to cancel the Trip on or before the Scheduled Return Date.
2. Sickness, Accidental Injury or death of a Family Member or Traveling Companion booked to travel with You that a.) occurs while You are on Your Trip; b.) requires Necessary Treatment at the time of interruption; and c.) as certified by a Physician, results in medically imposed restrictions as to prevent that person’s continued participation on the Trip.
3. Sickness, Accidental Injury or death of a non-traveling Family Member.
4. You or Your Traveling Companion have a previously approved military leave revoked or experience a military re-assignment.
5. You, Your Traveling Companion or Family Member, who are military personnel, and are called to emergency duty to provide aid or relief in the event of a Natural Disaster (this does not include war).
6. Weather at the departure site that causes complete cessation of services for at least twelve (12) consecutive hours of the Common Carrier on which You are scheduled to travel and prevents You from reaching Your destination. This benefit will not apply if the Natural Disaster has been forecasted or a storm has been named prior to purchase of this coverage.
7. Natural Disaster at the site of Your destination that renders Your destination accommodations Uninhabitable.
8. Mandatory evacuation, or public official evacuation advisements where there is no mandatory evacuation, issued by local government authorities at Your Trip destination due to hurricane or other Natural Disaster. In order to interrupt Your Trip, You must have four (4) days or fifty percent (50%) of Your total Trip length or less remaining on Your Trip at the time the mandatory evacuation ends.
9. A weather delay at the sporting competition to which You are specifically traveling more than one hundred (100) miles from Your Home causing the sporting competition to be rescheduled to a date when You are not scheduled to be at the location, or to be cancelled.
10. A Terrorist Incident that occurs in Your departure city or in a city listed on Your Trip itinerary during Your Trip. Benefits are not provided if the Travel Supplier offers a substitute itinerary. This does not include flight connections or other transportation arrangements to reach Your destination. Your Scheduled Departure Date must be no more than fifteen (15) months beyond Your Effective Date. A Terrorist Incident that occurs onboard an in-flight aircraft is not covered.
11. You being hijacked, Quarantined, required to serve on a jury or subpoenaed during the Trip; having Your Home made Uninhabitable by Natural Disaster; or burglary of Your principal place of residence during the Trip.
12. A closed roadway causing cessation of travel for You or Your Traveling Companion for at least six (6) consecutive hours to or from Your Trip destination (substantiated by the Department of Transportation, state police, etc.).
13. Strike that causes complete cessation of services of the Common Carrier with whom You or Your Traveling Companion are scheduled to travel for at least twelve (12) consecutive hours.
14. Your arrival on the Trip being delayed due to a Hazard that causes You to lose fifty percent (50%) or more of the scheduled Trip duration.
The Company will reimburse You up to the Maximum Benefit shown on the Schedule of Benefits, subject to any applicable sub-limits, for the following:
(a) unused portion of the pre-paid, forfeited, non-refundable Payments or Deposits You paid for Your Travel Arrangements;
(b) the airfare paid less the value of applied credit from an unused travel ticket, to return home, join or rejoin the original Travel Arrangements limited to the cost of one-way economy airfare or similar quality as originally issued ticket by scheduled carrier, from the point of destination to the point of origin shown on the original travel tickets. In no event will the Company reimburse You for the cash value of Your airline ticket(s) purchased with frequent flier miles.
The Company will pay for Reasonable Expenses incurred by You if Your Traveling Companion must remain Hospitalized or if You must extend the Trip with additional hotel nights due to a Physician certifying You or Your Traveling Companion cannot fly home due to an Accident or a Sickness but do not require Hospitalization.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS: You must advise the Company or its authorized representative as soon as possible in the event of a claim. The Company will not pay benefits for any additional charges incurred that would not have been charged had You notified the Company, its authorized representative and Your Travel Supplier as soon as reasonable possible.
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