Travel insurance
Travel assistance insurance product information document.
Product: Cancellation Insurance + travel assistance and COVID included
What is this type of insurance?
This insurance policy covers the economic damages derived from isolation and convalescence due to COVID-19, on the one hand in the moments prior to the activity and on the other hand, within the hotel where you stay, medical and sanitary assistance and repatriation.
What does the insurance cover?
In the event of an incident covered by this policy, the Insurer guarantees the provision of the following services:
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The Insurer, up to the limit indicated in the Particular Conditions of the policy, shall pay the expenses corresponding to the intervention of the health professionals and establishments required for the care of the sick or injured Insured, provided that such intervention has been carried out in agreement with the Insurer’s medical team.
The following services are expressly included, without this list being restrictive in nature, and provided that the seriousness of the case so requires:
a) Care by emergency medical teams.
b) Complementary medical examinations.
c) Hospitalisations, treatments and surgical interventions.
d) Provision of medicines in hospitalisation, or reimbursement of their cost in the case of injuries or illnesses that do not require hospitalisation. Excluded from this coverage is the successive payment of those medicines or pharmaceutical expenses arising from any process that is chronic in nature.
In the event of a vital emergency as a consequence of an unforeseeable complication of a chronic, congenital or pre-existing illness, the Insurer shall only cover the costs of initial medical care provided as an emergency and within the first 24 hours of admission to hospital.The expenses covered for this reason may under no circumstances exceed 10% of the sum insured for the Medical Care cover.
Except in the event of an emergency or accredited force majeure, it shall be the Insurer who, through its medical team, shall decide to which medical centre the Insured shall be referred depending on the injury or illness suffered by the latter.
In the case of illnesses or accidents occurring within the contracted scope of cover, if the prognosis of the Insurer’s medical team determines that given the seriousness of the case the Insured person requires long-term treatment, the Insurer shall proceed to transfer the Insured person to his habitual place of residence so that he can receive this treatment by the means of the Insurer’s medical team.
The Insurer will transfer the Insured person to his habitual place of residence so that he can receive this treatment by the usual means of health care in his place of residence. In the event that the Insured person does not accept this transfer, the Insurer’s obligations with respect to the payment of the services covered by this guarantee shall immediately cease.Long-term treatment shall be understood to be any treatment that exceeds 60 days from the date on which the diagnosis was made.
Likewise, and up to the limit indicated in the Particular Conditions of the policy, the Insurer shall meet the costs of the intervention of professionals for acute dental problems, understood as those which, due to infection, pain or trauma, require emergency treatment.
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In the event of an accident or supervening illness of the Insured, the Insurer shall pay for:
a) The cost of transfer by ambulance to the nearest clinic or hospital.
b) The control by its Medical Team, in contact with the doctor attending to the injured or sick Insured, to determine the measures appropriate for the best treatment to be followed and the most suitable means for their possible transfer to another more suitable hospital or to the Insured’s home.
c) The costs of transporting the injured or sick person, by the most suitable means of transport, to the prescribed hospital centre or to their habitual home.The means of transport used in each case shall be decided by the Insurer’s Medical Team according to the urgency and seriousness of the case.
Exclusively in Europe, and always at the discretion of the Insurer’s Medical Team, a specially equipped medical aircraft may be used.
If the Insured should be admitted to a hospital not close to their home, the Insurer shall pay for the subsequent transfer to the hospital at the appropriate time.
In the event of the Insured not having their habitual residence in Spain, they shall be repatriated to the place where the journey begins in Spain.
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When the insured person who is ill, injured or deceased has to be repatriated for any of the reasons foreseen in the guarantees “Repatriation or medical transport of the injured or ill” and “Repatriation or transport of the deceased Insured person”, and the latter is travelling in the company of two other insured persons, the Insurer shall organise and pay for the return of the two companions with the Insured person to the Insured person’s home in Spain or to the place of hospitalisation.
In the event that the Insured does not have his habitual residence in Spain, he shall be repatriated to the place where the trip begins in Spain.
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If the sick or injured Insured is unable to return home due to medical prescription, the Insurer shall pay for the hotel expenses incurred in extending the stay, up to 75 euros per day for a maximum period of 10 days.
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In the event of the death of an Insured, the Insurer shall organise the transfer of the body to the place of burial in Spain and shall meet the costs thereof. These expenses shall be understood to include those of post-mortem conditioning in accordance with legal requirements.
Burial and ceremony expenses shall not be included.
In the event that the Insured does not have their habitual residence in Spain, they shall be repatriated to the place where the journey begins in Spain.
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The Insurer shall be responsible for the transmission of urgent messages entrusted to it by the Insured Parties as a result of claims covered by these guarantees.
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ALHAMBRA ONLINE guarantees up to the economic limit established in the Particular Conditions of the policy, and subject to the specific exclusions of cancellation that are mentioned in this policy, the reimbursement of the expenses for cancellation OF THE CONTRACTED TOURIST SERVICES, EXCURSIONS, GUIDED TOURS, etc., that occur at the expense of the Insured and that are invoiced by the application of the general conditions of sale of the Agency or any of the suppliers of the trip, INSURED BY THIS POLICY that occur at the Insured Party’s expense and that are invoiced to him/her by application of the general conditions of sale of the Agency, or of any of the suppliers of the trip, provided that he/she cancels the trip before the start of the trip and due to one of the causes occurring after the contracting of the insurance and which prevents him/her from attending the event on the dates contracted.
Causes occurring after the insurance policy has been taken out that prevent you from attending the event on the dates contracted:
ALHAMBRA ONLINE guarantees up to the economic limit established in the Particular Conditions of the policy, and subject to the specific exclusions of cancellation mentioned in this policy, the reimbursement of the expenses for cancellation OF THE CONTRACTED TOURIST SERVICES, EXCURSIONS, GUIDED TOURS, ETC , INSURED BY THIS POLICY that occur at the expense of the Insured and that are invoiced to him/her by application of the general conditions of sale of the Agency, or of any of the suppliers of the trip, provided that he/she cancels the same before the commencement of the trip and for one of the following causes occurring after the contracting of the insurance and which prevents him/her from attending the event on the contracted dates:
Due to the death or hospitalisation for at least one night, serious illness or serious bodily accident of:
– Insured, or of one of their relatives, as established in the definition of the General Conditions of the policy.
– The professional substitute of the Insured.
– Of the person in charge, during the Insured’s trip, of the custody of minors, the elderly or disabled persons who were in the care of the Insured.
In relation to the Insured, Serious Illness is understood to mean a health alteration that implies hospitalisation or the need to stay in bed within the 7 days prior to the trip or which, in the opinion of the Company’s medical team, makes it medically impossible for the Insured to start the trip on the planned date.
Serious Accident means bodily injury, unintentional on the part of the victim, resulting from the sudden action of an external cause and which, in the opinion of a medical professional, makes it impossible for the Insured to start the trip on the scheduled date, or which entails a risk of death for any of the aforementioned family members.
When the illness affects any of the aforementioned persons other than the Insured, it shall be understood to be serious when it involves hospitalisation for at least one night or the need to stay in bed for a period of at least 3 days, in both cases provided that it is within the 7 days prior to the start of the trip or involves a risk of imminent death.
Cancellation of the means of public transport used by the insured person to reach the event. This cancellation must prevent the insured person from attending the event. The presentation of the supporting documents issued by the Entity owning the means of public transport certifying the cancellation will be necessary for the processing of the payment. This indemnity shall be paid as long as it has not been assumed by the Transport Company.
Due to the occurrence of a serious matter, understood as such damage due to fire, flooding or consummated theft, circumstances that must be accredited with documentary proof, that affects the property of the Insured and makes their presence at their main residence indispensable:
– Main residence.
– Professional or business premises.
4. Due to the summons of the Insured Party as a party or witness in a court of law.
Due to the summons as a member of a polling station for state, regional or municipal elections.
Due to the delivery of a child for adoption during the planned dates of the trip.
7. Due to a court summons for divorce proceedings occurring after the trip has been taken out and coinciding with the date of the trip.
Due to the police detention of the Insured for non-criminal causes, occurring after the subscription of the insurance policy and coinciding with the dates of the trip.
Due to the declaration of income tax made at the same time, carried out by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations which results in an amount to be paid by the Insured Party of more than 600 €.
Due to the imposition of a traffic fine of more than 600 €.
Due to the withdrawal of the driving licence provided that the vehicle was to be used as a means of locomotion for the journey and none of the Insured’s companions could replace him/her in the driving of the vehicle.
Due to taking official competitive examinations organised by a public body after the insurance policy has been taken out.
What is not covered by the insurance?
The covers agreed do not include:
- a) Events voluntarily caused by the Insured Party or those in which there is malice or gross negligence on the part of the Insured Party.
- b) Illnesses, chronic, congenital and/or pre-existing illnesses, as well as their consequences, suffered by the Insured prior to the start of the trip, except for those expressly covered.
- c) Death by suicide or injuries or illnesses resulting from the attempt or caused intentionally by the Insured to
- c) Death by suicide or injuries or illnesses resulting from the attempt or caused intentionally by the Insured to himself or herself, and those resulting from the criminal enterprise of the Insured.
- d) Illnesses or pathological states caused by the ingestion of alcohol, psychotropic drugs, hallucinogens or any drug or substance of similar characteristics.
- e) Cosmetic treatments and the supply or replacement of hearing aids, contact lenses, glasses, orthoses and prostheses in general, as well as expenses arising from childbirth or pregnancy and any type of mental illness.
- f) Injuries or illnesses deriving from the participation of the Insured in bets, competitions or sporting events, and the practice of sporting and/or adventure activities not expressly covered.
- g) Those cases arising, directly or indirectly, from events produced by nuclear energy, radioactive radiation, natural catastrophes, acts of war, riots or terrorist acts.
- h) Injuries produced by the professional practice of any type of sport.
- i) The rescue of people in the desert and/or at sea.
- j) Any type of medical or pharmaceutical expenses of an amount lower than that stipulated in the Particular Conditions of the policy.
- k) The use of medical aircraft except in Europe and always at the discretion of the Insurer’s Medical Team.
Where am I covered?
The territorial scope of the policy is Spain.
When am I covered?
In order to benefit from the guarantees covered, the time spent by the Insured outside their habitual residence must not exceed 1 day’s stay for the practice of the activity.
Table of cover.
Nº | Benefits | Limit |
1 | Medical and health care: | |
Spain | 600 € | |
Dental expenses | 30 € | |
2 | Repatriation or medical transport of injured or sick persons | The full cost thereof |
3 | Repatriation or transport of two accompanying persons | The full cost thereof |
4 | Convalescence in a hotel | 750 € (75 € for 10 days) |
5 | Repatriation or transportation of the deceased Insured | The full cost thereof |
6 | Transmission of urgent messages | Dwast Service |