My travel insurance company are being very difficult re accepting that Diabetes type 1 is an additional risk. They now want another medical report from my GP (info from Diabetes clinic not enough.) regarding requested claim for flight when area was safe to travel to again. Think I may just give up. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I think a thread about travel insurance might be interesting, maybe a mod could move our posts if you start one.My travel insurance company are being very difficult re accepting that Diabetes type 1 is an additional risk. They now want another medical report from my GP (info from Diabetes clinic not enough.) regarding requested claim for flight when area was safe to travel to again. Think I may just give up. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Thanks sounds similar. But we booked break and flight to Spain ( Ryan air refused to refund even though UK had advised no travel they continued with flights! Most other airlines didn’t! So will ask GP to do report but he does not manage my diabetes.Type 1 since 1965 .Hi
I actually managed to get some money out of my insurance company (Insure & Go) for my loss of deposit. We had villa only last summer and the balance payment was due 13th April. The villa company said as it was villa only, so long as Spain wasn't locked down, they would be providing the villa so we had to pay in full even if we didnt or couldnt travel. Due to my T1 we decided it would be unsafe to travel and rather than lose the £2k we chose to lose the £340 deposit. Initially the insurance company said we had chosen to cancel it so no refund. However I argued that as I had had medical screening and paid extra premium due to having T1, it would have been too dangerous to travel. A month later they paid my claim without any further ado.
I'm unsure if it is the same thing as you're experiencing?
As insurance usually covers things which might occur before the holiday starts, like sudden illness, bereavement etc you have already "used" some of the insurance so I am surprised you got the money back - well done!We booked a 21 day Alaska cruise including land portion for May 2020
It was canceled H.America reimbursed every $ including the flight it took 6 weeks to
Be credited to our visa
We also got all the travel insurance back from Blue cross
So we have no complaints.
I have used Staysure. Not specifically for Covid, but a cancelled flight in March would have be claimable under the annual policy I had, had the airline not paid up (they did). They were the most competitively priced of the providers covering my medical conditions as well as fulfilling all the criteria I have. They have been a Which Best Buy in some years - think that’s how I first came to them.
Ps I also have insurance with Insure and go . Including Diabetes.Thanks sounds similar. But we booked break and flight to Spain ( Ryan air refused to refund even though UK had advised no travel they continued with flights! Most other airlines didn’t! So will ask GP to do report but he does not manage my diabetes.Type 1 since 1965 .
Thanks that’s helpful information.I did manage to make an insurance claim for 2 Ryanair flights. I did get a letter from my doctor stating it was unsafe for me to travel due to my diabetes and lack of social distancing on a plane. That was at a cost of £50 and after Ryanair flatly refused to offer a refund or transfer despite the letter. However, we did have to pay an excess. We were due to stay with friends in their apartment in France so the holiday was impossible.
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