Travel Insurance Policies

EDM number 2165 in 2008-09, proposed by Jim Dobbin on 27/10/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Financial institutions.

That this House notes the difficulties that can arise with travel insurance cover for people requiring hospital care abroad when they have obtained inappropriate cover or have failed accurately to answer all questions in the proposal form; acknowledges that the Financial Ombudsman Service provides guidance to consumers about the risks involved, but calls on the Government to give such guidance wider publicity; welcomes and appreciates the generous decision of EHIC Plus Travel Insurance in just such a case where the proposal form was inaccurately completed thereby invalidating cover, to make a substantial voluntary contribution out of sympathy with the predicament of Mrs Jean Edwards, a constituent of the hon. Member for Heywood and Middleton, who is stranded seriously ill in a hospital in Turkey, in order to allow her to be brought back to the UK; and thanks the company for this positive, humanitarian resolution which does credit to the insurance industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.