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Flight Only
This plan is a flight accident coverage only plan.
IMPORTANT
Certain capitalized words are defined terms within this document.
INDIVIDUAL COVERAGE PERIOD
"Effective Date" is the later of the date and time of departure of the Covered Trip or: i) the date the enrollment is deposited in an airport kiosk; ii) the Postmark of Your enrollment form; iii) the date You phone in the enrollment; iv) the date Your enrollment form is received by facsimile or v) the date You submit the enrollment via the internet, provided that in all cases the proper plan cost has been paid.

Flight Accident Plan begins on the departure date of the Covered Trip or the Effective Date whichever is later. The Flight Accident Plan ends when the trip is completed or after 180 days, whichever comes first.
EXTENSION OF COVERAGE
If the duration of Your Covered Trip is prolonged and not completed during the policy period because of the delay (beyond the control of any person insured hereunder) of the means of transport by which You are traveling or are due to travel provided that such transportation was due to arrive at Your destination within the policy period and provided that the Covered Trip is completed with reasonable dispatch, the insurance is extended automatically beyond the expiration date without additional premium for a period of 72 hours.
FLIGHT ACCIDENT
You are covered for the amount purchased for accidental death, dismemberment or loss of sight as the result of an accident while a passenger on:
  • a regularly scheduled airline flight or regularly scheduled charter operated:
    • in scheduled air transportation pursuant to economic authority issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board;
    • by an intrastate scheduled airline of United States registry maintaining regularly published schedules and licensed for the transportation of passengers by a duly constituted authority having jurisdiction over civil aviation in the state in which said airline operates; or
    • by a scheduled airline of foreign registry maintaining regularly published schedules and licensed for transportation of passengers by the duly constituted governmental authority having jurisdiction over civil aviation in the country of registry of such airline;
  • any aircraft, other than a single-engine jet, which at the time is making a flight for the principal purpose of transporting passengers and not for any other operational, tactical or test purposes, and which is operated by:
    1. the Military Airlift Command of the United States;
    2. the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Transport Command; or
    3. the Royal Air Force Air Transport Command of Great Britain;
  • any land or water conveyance provided at the expense of the air carrier as a substitute for an aircraft covered by this plan;
  • a vehicle licensed to carry passengers for hire, but only:
    • when going to an airport to board an aircraft on which You are covered by this plan; or
    • when leaving an airport after alighting from such an aircraft;
  • received while upon airport premises designated for passenger use immediately before boarding or immediately after alighting from an aircraft on which You are covered by this plan.
When You sustain covered Injuries resulting on any of the following losses within 180 days from the date of the accident, benefits will be paid as follows:
  • Loss of life, both feet, both hands, both eyes, one hand and one foot, one hand and one eye or one foot and one eye — Maximum Benefit Amount;
  • Loss of one hand, one foot or one eye — one half the Maximum Benefit Amount.
Loss of hand or hands, or foot or feet, means complete and permanent severance at or above the wrist joint or ankle joint, respectively. Loss of eye or eyes means the total and irrecoverable loss of the entire sight thereof. Only one of the amounts shown above (the largest applicable) will be paid for the Injuries resulting from one accident.
The benefit for loss of: a) two limbs; b) both eyes; or c) one limb and one eye is payable only when such loss results from the same accident.

If, while covered by this benefit, You are unavoidably exposed to the elements because of a covered accident and suffer a loss for which benefits are payable under this benefit, such loss will be covered. If, while covered by this benefit, You are in an accident resulting in the disappearance, sinking or damaging of an air or water conveyance on which You are covered by this benefit, and Your body has not been found within 52 weeks from the date of the accident, it will be presumed, unless there is evidence to the contrary, that You suffered loss of life as a result of those Injuries.

The Flight Accident Plan also includes a medical expense feature that pays You up to $50 for each $1,000 of Your chosen benefit amount. If medical expense occurs within 52 weeks of a covered accident, You will be paid for: treatment by a Legally Qualified Physician or surgeon; care or service from a Hospital; services and supplies provided by an ambulatory medical-surgical facility; home health care from a licensed home health agency, but only if continued Hospital care would otherwise have been required; attendance of a registered graduate nurse; x-ray examination; or, use of an ambulance. Loss must occur within 100 days of the accident. To receive benefits, the loss must be independent of Sickness and all other causes.
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE
You can access a wide-range of valuable services, through a toll-free telephone call, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Travel Assistance provides a variety of travel related services, including:
  • Medical or legal referral
  • Emergency cash transfer**
  • Translation service
  • Prescription drug-eyeglass replacement**
  • Passport/visa information
  • Bail bond**
  • Lost baggage retrieval
  • Inoculation information
** Benefit reimbursement to the Assistance Company is your responsibility.
DEFINITIONS
"Baggage and Personal Effects" means goods being used by an Insured during a Covered Trip. (See Exclusions)

"Common Carrier" means any public land, air or water conveyance operating under a valid license providing for the transportation of passengers for hire.

"Confirmation of Coverage" means the coverage confirmation provided to You following enrollment and the payment of the applicable plan cost.

"Covered Expense" means expense incurred for services and supplies: a) listed below; and b) ordered or prescribed by a Legally Qualified Physician as Medically Necessary for diagnosis or treatment; which are limited to: the services of a Legally Qualified Physician; Hospital or ambulatory medical-surgical center services (this will also include expenses for a cruise ship cabin or hotel room, not already included in the cost of Your Covered Trip, if recommended as a substitute for a hospital room for recovery of an Injury or Sickness); transportation furnished by a professional ambulance company to and/or from a Hospital; and prescribed drugs, prosthetics and therapeutic services and supplies.

"Covered Trip" means scheduled trips, tours or cruises for which: a) coverage is requested and b) the required plan cost is paid prior to the Scheduled Departure Date.

"Economy Transportation" means the lowest published available transportation rate for a ticket on a Common Carrier matching the original class of transportation that You purchased for the Covered Trip, reduced by the value of an unused return travel ticket.

"Eligible Person" means a resident of the United States or a person who purchases this insurance within the United States.

"Family Member" means You or Your Traveling Companion’s: legal spouse or common-law spouse (where legal), legal guardian, legal ward, son or daughter (adopted, foster, step or in-law), brother or sister (includes step or in-law), parent (includes step or in-law), grandparent (includes in-law), grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or Key Person, provided the Family Member resides in the United States, Canada or Mexico.

"Hospital" means: a) a place which is licensed or recognized as a general hospital by the proper authority of the state in which it is located; b) a place operated for the care and treatment of resident inpatients with a registered graduate nurse (RN) always on duty and with a laboratory and an x-ray facility; c) a place recognized as a general hospital by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. Not included is a Hospital or institution licensed or used principally: 1) for treatment or care of drug addicts or alcoholics; or 2) as a clinic, continued or extended care facility, skilled nursing facility, convalescent home, rest home, nursing home or home for the aged.

"Injury" or "Injuries" mean accidental bodily Injuries received while protected under this coverage and resulting in loss independently of Sickness and all other causes and certified by a Legally Qualified Physician.

"Intoxicated" means a blood alcohol level which equals or exceeds the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle in the state or jurisdiction where You are located at the time of an incident.

“Key Person” means a) an employed caregiver of a dependant of the Insured or the Insured's traveling companion or b) a person to whom the Insured or the Insured's traveling companion is not married and with whom the Insured or the Insured's traveling companion has cohabited for 12 continuous months.

“Legally Qualified Physician” means a physician or a Christian Science Practitioner: a) other than You, a Traveling Companion or a Family Member; b) practicing within the scope of his or her license; and c) recognized as a physician in the place where the services are rendered.

“Maximum Benefit Amount” means the maximum amount payable for each coverage as shown on the Confirmation of Coverage.

“Medical Treatment” means treatment, advice or consultation by a Legally Qualified Physician.

“Medically Necessary” means a service or supply which: a) is recommended by the attending Legally Qualified Physician; b) is appropriate and consistent with the diagnosis in accordance with accepted standards of community practice; c) could not have been omitted without adversely affecting Your condition or quality of medical care; d) is delivered at the most appropriate level of care and not primarily for the sake of convenience; and e) is not considered experimental unless coverage for experimental service or supplies is required by law.

“Postmark” means the U.S. Postal Service mark that records the date and place of mailing to the addressee on the Protection Plan enrollment form.

“Scheduled Departure Date” means the date on which You are originally scheduled to leave on Your Covered Trip.

“Scheduled Return Date” means the date You are originally scheduled to return to the point of origin or the original final destination.

“Sickness” means an illness or disease which is diagnosed or treated by a Legally Qualified Physician after the Effective Date of Your plan and while You are covered under this plan.

“Terrorist Incident” means the unsanctioned and illegal use of violence which caused destruction of property, Injury, or death by an individual or group for the express or implied purpose of achieving a political, ethnic, or religious goal or result. A Terrorist Incident does not include general civil disturbance, rioting, an act of war (declared or undeclared) or the intentional release of a biological material. The Terrorist Incident must be documented in a travel warning issued by the United States Department of State advising that one should not travel to the Insured's country of destination or, for U.S. cities, reported by the major news media.

“Transportation Expense” means: a) the cost of the conveyance of You and any medical personnel (if Medically Necessary); and b) Medically, Necessary services and supplies.

“Traveling Companion” means a person or persons with whom You have coordinated Travel Arrangements and intend to travel with during the Covered Trip (to a maximum of four persons including You). Note: a group or tour leader is not considered a Traveling Companion, unless You are sharing room accommodation with the group or tour leader.

“Usual and Customary Charges” means those comparable charges for similar treatment, services and supplies in the geographic area where treatment is performed.

“You or Your” means the individual(s) named on the enrollment form.
FILING A CLAIM IS SIMPLE
To receive a claim form: Contact the company within 30 days of Your loss at 1-888-322-6776, or send Your name, address, travel dates, confirmation number (provided on Your confirmation of coverage), and details of Your loss to:

Old Republic Insurance Company
Travelex Claims Department
4600 Witmer Industrial Estates, Suite 6
Niagara Falls, NY 14305

IMPORTANT: To facilitate prompt claims settlement, You will be asked to provide proof of Your loss within 90 days after the date of loss or as soon as is reasonably possible. Proof must, however be furnished no later than 12 months from the time it is otherwise required, except in the absence of legal capacity. Therefore, be sure to obtain as applicable:

Benefits under any coverage will not be paid for expenses reimbursed or services provided by any other source. Benefits cannot be duplicated under this Protection Plan.

Unless You otherwise designate a beneficiary, or in the event the designated beneficiary predeceases You, indemnity for loss of life will be paid to the first of the following surviving beneficiaries: Your spouse; child or children, jointly; parents, jointly if both are living, or the surviving parent, if only one survives; brothers and sisters jointly; or Your estate.
GENERAL EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS
Benefits are not payable for Sickness, Injuries or losses of You and Your Traveling Companion:
  1. resulting from suicide, attempted suicide, or any intentionally selfinflicted Injury while sane or insane (in Missouri, sane only);
  2. resulting from a Terrorist Incident, hostilities or an act of declared or undeclared war;
  3. while participating in maneuvers or training exercises of an armed service;
  4. while riding, driving or participating in races, or speed or endurance contests;
  5. while mountaineering (engaging in the sport of scaling mountains generally requiring the use of picks, ropes or other special equipment);
  6. while participating as a member of a team in an organized sporting competition;
  7. while participating in skydiving, hang gliding, bungee cord jumping, scuba diving or deep sea diving;
  8. while piloting or learning to pilot or acting as a member of the crew of any aircraft;
  9. received as a result or consequence of being Intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled substance unless administered on the advice of a Legally Qualified Physician;
  10. to which a contributory cause was the commission of or attempt to commit a felony or being engaged in an illegal occupation;
  11. resulting from a governmental regulation or prohibition;
  12. unless medically fit to travel at the time of purchase of coverage;
  13. relating to a diagnosed Sickness from which no recovery is expected and for which only palliative treatment is provided and which carries a prognosis of death within 12 months of the policy Effective Date;
  14. resulting from non-physical Sickness such as mental, nervous, emotional or personality disorders in any form whatsoever unless the affected person is hospitalized for 3 consecutive days or more after the policy Effective Date;
  15. due to normal childbirth, normal pregnancy (except complications of pregnancy) or voluntarily induced abortion;
  16. for dental treatment (except as coverage is otherwise specifically provided herein);
  17. where coverage has been purchased for travel to or through countries for which travel warnings have been issued by the United States Department of State at the time this insurance is purchased; or
  18. resulting from the intentional release of a biological material.
For Residents of California, benefits are not payable if during the 60 days prior to Your Effective Date, a Legally Qualified Physician advised You or Your Traveling Companion not to travel due to a Sickness or Injury. Maximum Limit of Liability: All limits are applied per trip. The Company’s maximum limit of liability resulting from the same occurrence will be $10,000,000. If the loss for all Insureds from such an occurrence exceeds $10,000,000 the Company will pay each Insured that proportion of the benefits stated which $10,000,000 bears to the total loss of all persons insured under all travel and flight insurance in force under this policy. The Company will pay no more than $500,000 per occurrence to or on account of any person insured.
GENERAL POLICY PROVISIONS
Plan costs and fees: All protection plan costs and fees are nonrefundable. In the event the plan cost paid for coverage is less than the required plan cost for coverage, benefits will be paid in direct proportion of the actual amount paid to the required plan cost due.

Medical Records: In the event of a claim, the Company reserves the right to review any and all of Your medical records, whether or not the contents of such records were made known to You.

Duplicate Coverage: If You have two or more Protection Plans underwritten by the Company that duplicate benefits, You will be paid up to the highest benefit amount under only one plan for each Covered Trip. Maximum Flight Accident is $500,000 for any one person at any one time under this coverage.

Subrogation: The Company, upon making any payment or assuming liability thereon under this policy, shall be subrogated to all rights of Your recovery against any person or corporation and may bring action in the name of the covered person to enforce such rights.

Coordination of Benefits: If an Insured is entitled to similar benefits through any other insurer the benefits payable under this insurance shall be coordinated so that total benefits from all insurers shall not exceed the actual loss insured.

Errors or Mis-payments: If any benefit is paid in error or payment is made in excess of the amount allowed under the provisions of this policy, the Company reserves the right to recover the excess or ineligible payment from You, Your estate, any institution, insurer or person to whom the payment was made.

Currency: All monies described in this policy are expressed in United States of America currency.

Limitations of Time for Bringing Suit: No action at law or in equity shall be brought to recover on this policy prior to the expiration of sixty days after proof of loss has been filed in accordance with the requirements of this policy, nor shall such action be brought at all unless brought within two years from the expiration of the time within which proof of loss is required by the policy.

Limitations Controlled by Statute: If any time limitation of this policy with respect to giving notice of claim or furnishing proof of loss is less than permitted by the laws of the jurisdiction of the United States in which the Insured resides at the time this policy is issued, such limitation is extended to agree with the minimum period permitted by such law.
Notice to Residents of Florida: The Benefits of the Plan providing Your coverage are governed primarily by the law of a state other than Florida. Your homeowners policy, if any, may provide coverage for loss of personal effects provided by the Baggage and Personal Effects coverage. This insurance is not required in connection with the purchase of Your travel arrangements.
Note: This plan contains disability insurance benefits or health insurance benefits, or both, that only apply during the Covered Trip. You may have coverage from other sources that already provides You with these benefits. You should review Your existing policies. If You have any questions about Your current coverage, call Your insurer or health plan provider.

Individual Travel Policy
Underwritten by:
Old Republic Insurance Company
414 West Pittsburgh Street
Greensburg, PA 15601 (called “the Company”)

Administered by:
Old Republic Insurance Company
4600 Witmer Industrial Estates - Suite 6
Niagara Falls, NY 14305

Limited Benefit Short Term Travel Policy
This is a legal contract between Old Republic Insurance Company and You. This Policy is issued in consideration of the Application, Confirmation of Coverage, this evidence of coverage and the payment of the appropriate premium.
POLICY NUMBER
Your Policy number for this individual Policy is the number found on Your Confirmation of Coverage. Use this number to identify Yourself and coverage in all correspondence with the Company.

State Exceptions:

Oregon -
Clerical Error: Clerical Error on the Company’s part or that of a Travel Supplier in keeping records or furnishing information will not void coverage if it is otherwise validly in force; nor will it continue coverage if it is otherwise validly terminated under the terms of this Policy. Conformity with State Statutes: The provisions of this Policy must conform to the laws of the state in which it was issued. If they do not, they are hereby amended to conform.

Kansas - Under the General Policy Provisions, “Subrogation” does not apply to reimbursement of medical, surgical, hospital or funeral expenses.

New York - Under General Exclusions and Limitations the following apply: 1) “while sane or insane” is deleted; 2) add “professional” in front of “mountaineering”; 3) replace “scuba diving and deep sea diving” with “professional scuba diving (any diving that requires more than an “Open Water 1” certification from PADI, NAUI, or other recognized diving certification organization.”; 4) delete “due to normal childbirth, normal pregnancy (except complications of pregnancy).
RATES

Flight Accident Benefit
(Max. $500,000)
Plan Rate Per Person
  $500,000   $20
  $400,000   $17
  $300,000   $13
  $250,000   $10
  $200,000   $8
  Travel Assistance Services   Included
Note: A non-refundable $4.00 processing fee will be added to all enrollments. Maximum allowable Flight Accident Coverage is $500,000 per traveler per covered trip.