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Trip Interruption

If You must start Your Trip later than scheduled or are unable to complete Your Trip due to one of the covered Unforeseen reasons listed below, We will reimburse You, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits, for the following:

1. unused, Pre-paid, nonrefundable Payments or Deposits You paid for Your Travel Arrangements insured under this Policy, and any fees imposed in accordance with The Jones Act;
2. plus one of the following transportation expenses:

a. the Additional Transportation Cost to reach Your scheduled destination if Your departure is delayed and You leave on Your Trip after Your Scheduled Departure Date and time;
b. the Additional Transportation Cost for You to reach the Scheduled Return Destination of Your Trip; or
c. the Additional Transportation Cost for You to rejoin Your Trip in progress from the point where You interrupted Your Trip.

We will also reimburse You, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits, for the additional single supplement cost You pay as the result of a change in the per person occupancy rate for Your Travel Arrangements if Your Traveling Companion’s Trip is interrupted for one of the covered Unforeseen reasons listed below and You do not interrupt Your Trip.

We will also reimburse You up to the sub-limit listed in the Schedule of Benefits for reasonable and necessary paid costs to drive or transport Your Covered Vehicle to Your Home if you meet all of the following.

1. You are using Your Covered Vehicle on the Trip.
2. the Covered Vehicle is with You at the place where the Trip is interrupted.
3. the place where the Trip is interrupted is one hundred (100) miles or more away from Your Home.
4. You are medically unable to drive Your Covered Vehicle Home due to a covered Sickness, Injury or death.

In no event shall the amount reimbursed for this benefit exceed the lesser of the Pre-paid Payments or Deposits made for Your Trip or the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits.

Trip Interruption must be due to one of the following Unforeseen reasons that occurs while this coverage is in effect for You:

1. Your, a Family Member’s, a Traveling Companion’s, a Traveling Companion’s Family Member’s, a Business Partner’s, or a Service Animal’s death that occurs after departure on Your Trip;

2. Your, a Family Member’s, a Traveling Companion’s, a Traveling Companion’s Family Member’s, a Business Partner’s, or a Service Animal’s covered Sickness or Injury that: (a) occurs while this coverage is in effect; (b) requires Medical Treatment by a Physician at the time of interruption; and (c) as certified by a Physician prior to interruption, results in medical restrictions so disabling as to prevent Your continued participation on the Trip. The Sickness or Injury of Your Business Partner must be so disabling as to reasonably cause you to assume daily management of the business;

3. the following other Unforeseen reasons which occur to You or Your Traveling Companion provided such circumstances occur while this coverage is in effect:

a. being unable to continue on Your Trip due to You or Your Traveling Companion being Quarantined;

b. pregnancy, as verified by medical records, provided the pregnancy begins after the Effective Date of Your Policy;

c. Complications of Pregnancy, as verified by medical records, provided they begin after Your Effective Date of Your Policy;

d. attending the childbirth of Your Family Member or surrogate mother to Your intended child, as verified by medical records, provided the childbirth begins during Your Trip;

e. the death, hospitalization or Quarantine of Your Host at Your Destination with whom You and/or Your Traveling Companion are staying with during Your Trip;

f. hospitalization due to mental, nervous or psychological disorders. The hospitalization must be for more than seventy-two (72) hours, must occur during Your Trip;

g. Strike that causes complete cessation of services for at least twelve (12) consecutive hours of the Common Carrier on which You or Your Traveling Companion are scheduled to travel preventing You or Your Traveling Companion from reaching Your destination;

h. Inclement Weather that causes complete cessation of services for at least twelve (12) consecutive hours of the Common Carrier on which You or Your Traveling Companion are scheduled to travel preventing You or Your Traveling Companion from reaching Your destination;

i. mechanical breakdown of the Common Carrier on which You or Your Traveling Companion are scheduled to travel that causes a cancellation or delay of at least three (3) consecutive hours preventing You or Your Traveling Companion from reaching Your destination;

j. Natural Disaster that causes complete cessation of services for at least twelve (12) consecutive hours of the Common Carrier on which You or Your Traveling Companion are scheduled to travel;

k. a cessation of public transportation services for twelve (12) hours due to Natural Disaster, severe weather, Civil Disorder or Riot that prevents You or Your Traveling Companion from reaching Your destination;

l. a government-mandated shutdown of an airport, air traffic control system, cruise port or train station during the Trip for at least three (3) consecutive hours due to a Terrorist Incident, fire, power outage or Natural Disaster that affects Your or Your Traveling Companion’s ability to continue travelling on the Trip. Benefits are not available if alternate arrangements or a substitute route is available;

m. Bankruptcy or Default of the airline, cruise line, tour operator, or other travel provider. The Bankruptcy or Default must cause a complete cessation of travel services. The Bankruptcy or Default must occur while on Your Trip and more than fourteen (14) days following Your purchase of the Policy. Benefits will be paid due to Bankruptcy or Default of an airline only if no alternate transportation is available. If alternate transportation is available, benefits will be limited to the change fee charged to allow transfer to another airline in order to get to the intended destination. This coverage applies only if Your Policy was purchased within the Time Sensitive Period;

n. being directly involved in a traffic accident while en route to the scheduled Trip point of departure (must be substantiated by a police report);

o. mechanical breakdown or theft of Your or Your Traveling Companion’s Covered Vehicle during Your Trip;

p. You, Your Traveling Companion or Your Host at Your Destination being called into emergency service to provide aid or relief for a Natural Disaster or a Terrorist Incident as part of military, police, first responder, medical personnel or fire personnel duties;

q. Your or Your Traveling Companion’s Home or destination accommodations made Uninhabitable by fire, flood, other Natural Disaster, vandalism, or burglary;

r. Trip destination accommodations are made Uninhabitable by a hurricane named during Your Trip for the greater of: 1) two (2) days; or 2) fifty percent (50%) of Your scheduled Trip duration. We will only pay benefits for this coverage for events occurring within fifteen (15) days of the named hurricane making Your destination accommodations Uninhabitable. No benefits are payable if the storm which triggers a hurricane warning was named prior to this coverage being in effect;

s. Trip destination accommodations are made Uninhabitable by a Natural Disaster occurring during Your Trip;

t. mandatory evacuation ordered by local government authorities, or public evacuation notices, recommendations or advertisements in geographic areas where government authorities will not under any circumstance issue a mandatory evacuation order to its residents, at Your Trip destination due to a Natural Disaster or Inclement Weather;

u. interruption of road service or a road closure due to Natural Disaster or Inclement Weather, prohibiting arrival, or causing a delay in arrival, at the scheduled Trip destination for at least twelve (12) hours;

v. an interruption of water, electric, sewage or gas service(s) at Your Home or destination, for more than twenty-four (24) hours due to inclement weather or Natural Disaster. No benefits are payable for losses occurring after fifteen (15) calendar days following the onset of the service interruption;

w. Your or Your Traveling Companion’s Trip departure city or destination city is issued a travel warning by the NOAA National Hurricane Center. Coverage for this reason is only available fourteen (14) days or more following the Policy purchase date;

x. being hijacked, required to serve on a jury during the Trip dates, or served with a court order to appear as a witness in legal action during the Trip in which You or Your Traveling Companion is not a party (except law enforcement officers). Notice must be received while on Your Trip;

y. being the victim of a Verified Physical Assault (must be substantiated by a police report);

z. a Terrorist Incident that occurs in a city listed on the Trip’s itinerary. In order for benefits to be payable, there must not have been a Terrorist Incident in the city in the thirty (30) days prior to Your purchase of the Policy. No benefits are payable for Terrorist Incidents that occur in a layover city and/or a city on the Trip itinerary that shows a scheduled visit of six (6) hours or less. Benefits are not available if the Travel Supplier offers a substitute route/ itinerary;

aa. involuntary employment termination or layoff. Notification of the termination or layoff must occur during the Trip. Employment must have been with the same employer for at least one (1) continuous year, including the date this Policy was purchased. This benefit is not available to independent contractors, temporary employees or self-employed individuals, or if You or Your Traveling Companion are a company owner or partner;

bb. a transfer of employment of two hundred fifty (250) miles or more that requires the relocation of Your or Your Traveling Companion’s Home. Notification of the transfer must be issued during the Trip. Employment must have been with the same employer for at least one (1) continuous year, including the date this Policy was purchased;

cc. revocation of previously granted military leave or reassignment of station. For revocation, official written notice by a supervisor or commanding officer of the original approval and the revocation must be provided. For reassignment, orders of relocation must be provided;

dd. being required to work during the scheduled Trip. Written confirmation of the previously approved time off and the revocation must be provided by an unrelated company official and/or the company’s Human Resources Department. In the situation of self-employment, proof of self-employment and a notarized statement confirming You or Your Traveling Companion are unable to travel due to job obligations will be required;

ee. the key(s) to Your vacation Rental Property are lost, stolen or damaged, preventing Your access for twenty-four (24) or more hours. Stolen key(s) must be substantiated by a police report, and documentation from the Property Management Company or property owner must be provided in the case of loss or damage;

ff. upon arrival, You discover that the accommodations You booked for Your Trip are fraudulent, already occupied, or materially not as advertised, and You decide not to remain on Your Trip;

gg. the lodging accommodations provided to You at the time of check-in are filthy and unsanitary.