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Benefits
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Limits
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What is Covered
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1. Ambulance Services
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The services of a licensed ambulance, including mountain and sea
rescue.
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2. Dental
Services
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Up to $4,000 per covered trip
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Covers expenses for an accidental
blow to the face requiring the repair or replacement of whole or sound natural
teeth. Also covers up to $500 for emergency treatment of pain relief, other than
a blow to the face.
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3. Medicines and/or Drugs
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Up to 30 days supply
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Covers drugs or medicines that are prescribed and deemed essential
by the attending medical Physician following a consultation (oral contraceptives
and patent medicines excluded), the Company will reimburse the Insured for the
actual expense incurred, during the period in which Insurance is in force hereunder
for such drugs or medicines, to a limit for 30 days supply, unless confined to
Hospital.
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4. Homeward
Carriage for Burial
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Up to $10,000
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Covers expenses of preparing
the deceased for burial and homeward carriage of the body in the event of the
death of an Insured.
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5. Cremation Expense
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Up to $4,000
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Covers expenses for cremation
or burial of the Insured at the place of death.
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6. Emergency Air Transportation
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Up to $3,000 for a one-way economy fare
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Covers medical transport (by the most appropriate means,
stretcher accommodation or Emergency air ambulance service), to transport the
Insured to the nearest medical facility equipped to provide the required treatment
or for return to Canada, including any necessary accompaniment. Also includes
the costs to return the Insrured’s traveling companion aboard the medical transport
or when spaced does not permit aboard the medical transport.
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7. Return
of Vehicle or Watercraft
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Up to $4,000
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Reimburses the actual reasonable
and necessary charges for a commercial agency to return a Vehicle that You own
or rent to either Your home or the nearest appropriate vehicle rental agency,
if You or Your traveling companion, are incapable of continuing Your trip by means
of the Vehicle.
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8. Return
of Insured to U.S.A.
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A one-way economy airfare
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If by virtue of emergency air evacuation, which was arranged and
coordinated by World Wide Mediclaim Services Ltd., in order to obtain medical
care in Canada, the Insured wishes to return to his destination in the U.S.A.,
the Company will pay the costs of one-way economy airfare to the city from where
the air evacuation commenced. This benefit is in lieu of the Return of Vehicle
benefit as above and only available to those persons who have been air evacuated
under the terms and conditions of this Policy and can only be offered once during
the same covered trip, and cannot exceed Your original expected return date.
The air evacuation occasioning this benefit cannot originate within Canada.
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9. Airfare to Return Home
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Up to $4,000 for a one-way economy airfare
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If, in the event of a medical Emergency, the Insured elects to
return to Canada for treatment saving the Insurer the costs of Medical Treatment
in the U.S.A., the Company will reimburse the costs of a one-way economy airfare
home, by the most direct route, for the Insured and one traveling companion to
a maximum of $4,000. Documentation is required to validate claim. This benefit
is in lieu of the Return of Vehicle benefit and Return of Insured to U.S.A. benefit
as above.
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10.
Family Transportation
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Up to $100/day
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Covers one economy return
airfare or other transportation costs by the most direct route in the event Sickness
or Injury confines the Insured to Hospital as an in-patient and the attending
Physician advises the necessary attendance of a family member, and up to a maximum
of $100 per day for meals and accommodation. This benefit is payable only
if the expense has been coordinated, arranged and approved by World Wide Mediclaim
Services Ltd.
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11. Out
of Pocket Expenses (receipts required)
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$400/day to a maximum of
$4,000 per covered trip
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In the event an Insured or
travelling companion is confined to Hospital on the date on which he or she is
scheduled to return to Canada, reimburses reasonable and necessary accommodation
for meals, telephone calls, taxi or bus fare and child care costs (excluding child
care provided by a parent or legal guardian) for dependents up to the age of 18
years.
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12. Escort of Insured
Children (up to age 18)
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In the event an Insured Person
has been air evacuated to Canada for medical reasons, the Company will pay the
economy class airfare to return an accompanying Insured child/children (up to
the age of 18 years to the original point of departure. The Company will also
pay for escort to accompany the children when necessary. This benefit is payable
only when approved and arranged by World Wide Mediclaim Services Ltd.
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13. Hospital Allowance
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Covers $50/day to a maximum of $500
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Covers incidental hospital charges, which are billed by the Hospital,
such as T.V. rental, telephone charges.
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14. Return
of Accompanying Dog or Cat
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Up to $300
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The costs of returning your
accompanying dog or cat in Canada, in the event You are medically air evacuated
back to Canada.
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