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Business Travel

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What is Business Travel Insurance?

There may be occasions that you need to travel abroad for work, and take expensive items with you like a laptop and phone. Business Travel insurance is there to help you in the instance that your business belongings get damaged or lost, as well as medical cover. 
 
It’s often the case that the travellers are decision makers or key personnel and the impact on the business could be quite severe should anything happen to them or their belongings. 
 

The policy can be tailored to suit your needs and can even be extended to cover spouses and/or children when accompanying an employee on a business trip. Premiums would depend on cover chosen. The number of employees, no of trips and destinations would all be taken into account for rating purposed.

Standard Policies include:

Additional Benefits could include:

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What's Covered?

Cancellation, Curtailment, and change of itinerary

Cover will be provided should you have to cancel your journey or if your journey is cut short due to circumstances unforeseen and outwith your control. Exclusions would again include Pregnancy (within 2 months of expected date of birth), Childbirth, Redundancy or if you simply change your mind to travel. Financial failure of any transport or accommodation provider or their agent would also be excluded.

Hijack, Kidnap, Detention

The policy can be extended to include this cover although there are usually monetary limitations applied and you should check your policy document. Similarly, travel to and from certain destinations would also be routinely excluded.

Travel Delay

Should your trip be delayed, your insurers will provide reimbursement towards accommodation costs if necessary or alternative transport where possible. There are time limits that apply to this section of the policy and such costs may be on a scaled benefit dependent upon the circumstances.

Cover will not be provided in the event of failure to adhere to your itinerary or in the event of any industrial action that you were aware of at the time of booking or given advance notice of.

Personal Liability

The policy would provide legal liability on a personal basis however any liability arising out of the insured’s trade, profession or business would be excluded. The policy would also exclude any liability in relation to liability arising out of the use of any mechanically propelled vehicle, aircraft or waterborne craft.

Personal Baggage

Cover can be extended to include loss of or damage to personal baggage and in certain circumstances money towards emergency clothing and toiletries although this is sometimes dependent upon the level of cover chosen.

Full details again can be found in your policy schedule. Some items such as contact lenses or electronic equipment may also be excluded from this section. Personal Money and Credit Cards are also excluded as they would be insured separately.

Passport Indemnity

Cover is extended to include any loss of or theft of your passport although any such loss must be reported to the consulate usually within the first 24 hours of discovery.

Money & Credit Card Extension

The policy can be extended to include money and credit cards but the loss of cash is usually limited and this will be shown in your policy schedule. Theft from any unattended vehicle would also be excluded.

Legal Expenses

Legal expenses cover would be provided should you sustain an injury or illness and wish to raise legal proceedings against the third party responsible.

Cover would be limited and full co-operation would be required with your Insurers and their legal representatives.

Frequently Asked Questions

A pre-existing condition usually means any medical condition for which medical advice, diagnosis, care or treatment was recommended or received. It is always a good idea to speak to the insurer you are thinking of using to check whether they will include your condition on the policy.

Most annual policies will cover travel within the UK. It’s always best to check before parting with your money though.

Details of what you are covered for can be found in your policy wording and Key Facts. Levels of medical cover, personal liability cover and any other types of cover that you have purchased will be noted within your documents.

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A Fair Presentation of the Risk At the heart of insurance contracts is an obvious truth: you have an enormous advantage over the insurer. You know all about your business, its history, processes, people and management, but the insurer knows nothing – other than what you tell them. Your Duties You have a statutory duty to make a fair presentation of the risk. You must tell the insurer: • Every material circumstance which you know or ought to know and/or • Sufficient information that would cause the insurer to make further enquiries, if necessary, to review those material circumstances Your Knowledge • You are deemed to have the knowledge of the company’s senior management. • You are deemed to have the knowledge of the person arranging the insurance (who is deemed to be a senior manager under statute). • Anything that can be discovered by a reasonable search. A failure to make a fair presentation of the risk gives the insurer various remedies, depending upon the nature of the failure, from avoiding the contract and not paying claims to modifying the basis of settlement.
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The Business Insurance Bureau is a niche specialist underwriter and commercial insurance broker, defying conventional categorisation, comprising of a small number of gifted individuals forming a collective intellectual giant.

We have developed our own unique range of quality insurance products, which has given the business a competitive advantage in several areas. Being in control of the entire process, from enquiry to policy issue, has allowed our business to deliver service levels hitherto unimaginable in this sector, or indeed for a business of its physical size.

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