Volcanic ash 'highlights need for travel insurance'

Comments (6)

• Steve 2010-04-19 16:18:22
  Sorry, I completely disagree with this as most insurers are washing their greedy little hands of this. There are a small minority of insurers paying out and I take my hat off to them but the majority are not covering. The ones that have left people high and dry should be named and shamed. The ones that have paid out should also be named so people know where to go for insurance!
• Tom 2010-04-19 20:22:19
  I agree. I have Insurance with O2 Insure (underwritten by Mondiale) and they have refused to pay out due to the volcanic ash incident being an 'Act of God'. I could understand if there was volcano that erupted in Heathrow and took out the entire fleet of BA's Boeing 737/ 747's but this is something that the Insurance industry should pay out on giving some compensation for travellers to cover their costs of disruption. Otherwise there is no point in taking out any form of travel insurance.
• Jacqui 2010-04-20 16:30:02
  I agree completely with the other comments - we HAVE got annual travel insurance with Insure and Go who are saying that we are not entitled to any compensation for our cancelled holiday - 'volcano' isn't named in their policy as a reason to pay out! Might as well have saved £106 on the policy as it's not worth the paper it's printed on...
• Vlad 2010-04-20 18:40:13
  An act of God would be something unprecedented - like a 1 in a million shot....even one in 10,000. This has happened before and will happen again, so they should pay up. Its really an adverse weather condition. A meteor strike would be different I suppose.
  
  At the end of the day insurance is a gamble and the bookies always win, but they shouldnt be allowed to shaft.
  
  I think we should publish a name and shame list - highlighting the good and bad guys in the insurance business.
• london 2010-04-21 00:59:19
  I love it... Insurers not offering insurance for something you know exisits and could happen lmao... what's the bloody point of any insurance then? Thats like saying we won't insure your for fire or theft because you know it exisits! We all know insurance is one of the biggest scams in the world so now there is actualy a legitmate reason to get insurance, i.e. you could be stranded in a country with no money and you want to protect against it and no one wants to cover you because 'you know this problem exisits'. British firms make me puke the way they try and get out of paying but take your money soooo easily. This world is so aimed at screwing the ordinary people and milking them for whatever they can get under the protection of the government it's absolutely disgusting. We have hardly any rights any more and are just getting squeezed and put out to work like battery hens in order to fill the coffers of the rich. There's hardly any recorse for the normal man left in society, if you are not rich and can't afford to deffend yourself in court you are screwed and the government doesn't give a damn. As long as they have their big salaries + expenses.. provided for by us as well. Look how the banks managed to weasle out of the overcharging fiasco.. they dragged it throuigh the courts for 3 years when everyone in the country knew it was a con. They finaly get ruled AGAINST in court and look like having to pay up when they do yet another appeal and suddenly after 3+ years the court ruling is overturned in a matte rof weeks it's 'Ok the banks were alright to charge us £30+ a time for going 1p overdrawn on accounts.... and no one does anyhting more about it... disgusting. Really sick of this country...
• Charles 2010-05-09 11:40:46
  This article is just a sales pitch for the travel insurers (and the commission this site presumably earns from them).
  
  What this has proved is that just buying travel insurance doesn't mean you're covered.
  
  We paid good money to Insure and Go, but they refuse to pay up. The reality is that paying Insure and Go means that you are Un-Insured and Go thinking that you are.