Travel Insurance Emergency Assistance

Travel Insurance companies include emergency assistance within their policies to provide travellers with a single point of contact in the event of a medical or legal emergency whilst abroad. This travel insurance cover therefore provides immense peace of mind for worldwide travellers and for family and friends remaining at home when loved ones travel abroad.

The travel insurance emergency assistance services is always staffed 24-hours a day, 365 days a year by multi-lingual medical professionals who can arrange anything from the simplest advice to emergency hospital transfers, treatment and when necessary they will arrange your repatriation home the UK. You could in fact view the emergency assistance service as the 999 emergency helpline for travellers. If you are overtaken by sudden illness then you should make contact with the emergency services ASAP and it is important to bear in mind that fees for medication and treatment may not be guaranteed unless the assistance company have been informed and agreed to pay the bill for your treatment.

Some travel insurance companies, such as World First, provide an emergency assistance card for policyholders to carry with them whilst they are aboard. This is useful as it means you can keep the details of your travel insurance and who to call in an emergency with you at all times and do not need to carry the full travel insurance policy documentation with you when you head out for the day.