Section 8 - Overseas Travel Cover Part A This part of this section extends cover to sections 1 to 7, if they appear on your policy schedule, to provide...
expandSection 8 - Overseas Travel Cover
Part A This part of this section extends cover to sections 1 to 7, if they appear on your policy schedule, to provide cover for you and the insured animal while on a journey. Some extra cover, exclusions and conditions relating to claims apply. These are below and you should read them with the sections to which they relate.
Extra cover to section 1 - Veterinary Fees If a vet decides the insured animal should be put to sleep while it is on a journey, we will pay up to £200 towards the cost of putting it to sleep, cremating it or disposing of its remains.
Extra claims conditions relating to section 1 - Veterinary Fees 1. If you are on a journey, you must get the vet to fill in a claim form before you return to the United Kingdom. You must also keep all the relevant receipts and pass them on to us to support your claim.
2. We may ask you to provide evidence that the insured animal was in good health, free from injury or illness and fit to travel at the start of the journey.
3. If you are claiming for having the insured animal put to sleep, we will need to see evidence from the vet that this was essential.
Extra exclusions to section 3 - Advertising and Reward
1. We will not pay for any reward claimed by anyone travelling on a journey with you.
Extra claims condition relating to section 3 - Advertising and Reward 1. If you lose the insured animal while on a journey, you must report the loss to the governing body or organisation in the country where the insured animal goes missing. If you make a claim we will need to see written evidence that you have done this.
Extra exclusion relating to section 5 - Boarding Fees if you have to stay in Hospital
1. We will not pay the costs if you knew you were likely to need to go into hospital before starting a journey.
Extra claims conditions relating to section 5 Boarding fees if you have to stay in Hospital 1. While on a journey you must make sure you get evidence of your hospital stay before leaving the country.
Extra cover to section 6 - Holiday Cancellation Cover 1. Cover is extended to cover you if you need to cut short your journey if the insured animal dies while on a journey, or cancel your holiday within seven days of your planned departure date because the insured animal is injured or becomes ill and because of this is unable to travel on a journey.
Extra claims condition relating to claims under section 6 - Holiday Cancellation Cover 1. If you cancel your journey because the insured animal is injured or is ill and is unable to travel, you must support your claim with written evidence from a vet.
Extra Exclusions relating to section 7 - Third Party Liability Cover
1. We will not pay for any compensation, costs or expenses for injury or death to anyone travelling on a journey with you or staying with you during a journey.
2. We will not pay for any compensation, costs or expenses if the property damaged belongs to anyone travelling on a journey with you or staying with you during a journey.
3. We will not pay for any compensation, costs or expenses if you or anyone you are travelling on a journey with, or staying with during a journey, is responsible for or looking after the property that is damaged.
4. We will not pay any compensation, costs or expenses if these arise because you are responsible under the laws of the USA or Canada.
Part B This part of this section provides extra cover if you are travelling on a journey.
Quarantine Costs
We will pay up to £1500 in any policy period towards the cost of:
1. Quarantine kennelling and costs involved in getting a new pet passport for the insured animal if a microchip of ISO Standard 11784 or Annex A to ISO 11785 fails, or:
2. quarantine kennelling if you have obeyed all the rules of the Pet Travel Scheme but the insured animal still has to go into quarantine because of an illness or condition.
Exclusions
We will not pay:
1. For fees if the microchip was not checked and found to be working properly within 14 days of your departure on a journey.
2. For any fees as a result of a condition that you were aware of before the start of the journey.
Conditions 1. You must support your claim with documents to prove that the insured animal was microchipped before your journey with a microchip of ISO Standard 11784 or Annex A to ISO Standard 11785 and that this was checked within 14 days of you travelling on a journey.
2. You must keep all documents and receipts showing the dates and expenses you had to pay, and send these to us to support your claim.
If you lose your Pet Passport
We will pay up to £250 in any policy period towards the cost of a replacement pet passport if you lose your original pet passport during a journey. This includes any quarantine costs as a direct result of you losing your pet passport.
Exclusions
We will not pay for:
1. Any claim unless you report the loss of the pet passport to the vet who provided it within 24 hours of discovering its loss.
2. Any damage, loss or theft that happens before the start of your journey.
Conditions 1. You must provide documents and receipts to support your claim.
Repeat Tick and Worming Treatment
We will pay reasonable fees charged by a vet if your carrier delays your departure for the United Kingdom and you have to get repeat tick and worming treatment for the insured animal.
Exclusions
We will pay for the following:
1. For any costs involved in getting the first tick and worming treatment needed under the Pet Travel Scheme on each journey.
2. Any costs if the first tick and worming treatment done (on each journey) was not carried out in the timescales needed under the Pet Travel Scheme.
3. For any costs if the tick and worming treatment was not necessary under the Pet Travel Scheme.
Conditions 1. You must support your claim with documents to prove that the original tick and worming treatment was carried out and that this was done in the timescales needed under the Pet Travel Scheme.
2. You must support your claim with documents to prove that the tick and worming treatment was needed under the Pet Travel Scheme.
Emergency Expenses Abroad We will pay up to £300 for each journey towards the following:
1. Reasonable accommodation expenses and extra expenses to take you and the insured animal home if it needs emergency treatment from a vet and as a result of this, you miss your return travel to the United Kingdom.
2. Reasonable accommodation and transport costs for up to four days to look for the insured animal if it is lost or strays during a journey and within three days of the date you are due to return to the United Kingdom.
3. Reasonable extra expenses to take you home if the insured animal is lost or strays within three days before you are due to return to the United Kingdom and you decide to stay abroad to try and find the insured animal.
4. Reasonable accommodation expenses and expenses to take you and the insured animal home if you miss your departure to the United Kingdom as a direct result of losing your pet passport.
5. Reasonable accommodation expenses and expenses to take you and the insured animal home if the carrier delays your departure for the United Kingdom and you miss your rearranged departure as a direct result of having to get repeat tick and worming treatment.
Conditions 1. You must support your claim with documents to show the amounts and dates of any expenses, and that these were both necessary and covered by this policy.
2. We may ask you to prove that the extra expenses were reasonable.
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