1. The information you give us

You must tell us any facts which could affect this insurance. If you do not, you may not be fully covered. In particular, you must give us any information which may influence our decision to accept or continue your insurance or the way we work out your premium (for example, your health or the health of a close relative). If you are not sure whether we need to know a particular fact, please contact Snowcard Insurance Services Limited.

2. If you or your personal representative need to make a claim

Please ring and ask for a claim form or email us a claims form request, as soon as possible after an event which you may want to claim for.

The telephone number is 08701 222 022

The phone line is open 24 hours, 365 days a year if you need to make a claim. We may record or monitor calls for training purposes or to improve the quality of our service. Fill in the claim form and return it with the relevant documents listed below, this policy and your insurance schedule. All the certificates, accounts, receipts, information and evidence you send must be in the form we ask for. Always send originals and not photocopies. You must pay any costs involved in providing these documents.

Please do not send any documents until you send in your claim form.

Medical and other expenses

Please send details of the illness or injury and original receipts and bills for any expenses you have paid.

Ski pack (lessons, hire, lift pass)
dive pack (prebooked dives, courses, hire)
golf pack (lessons, green fees)

Give reason for cutting short the use of your ski/dive/golf pack and a medical certificate confirming that this was necessary.

Personal accident

Please send full details of the accident and injury. If you make a claim, you must allow our medical advisers to examine you as often as they need. (We will pay any costs and your expenses for these examinations if we accept your claim.)

Personal liability

You must send us any writ, summons or other legal documents as soon as you receive them. You must also give us any information and help we need to deal with the case and your claim. You must not negotiate, pay, settle, admit or deny any claim without our written agreement.

Personal belongings, snow sport and activity equipment and temporary loss

Please send full details of the belongings which have been lost, stolen or damaged. You should also send receipts to prove their value or bills for the cost of repair. For loss or theft claims, you must also send a police report. If your belongings are lost, stolen or damaged in the care of an airline, you must send a ‘property irregularity report’ as well as the flight tickets and luggage receipts the airline gave you when you checked in. For temporary loss claims, please send receipts for replacement items you have bought and a ‘property irregularity report’.

Equipment hire

Please send receipts for the cost of the equipment hire and full details of what was lost, damaged or stolen.

Money and documents

Please send full details together with a police report and cash withdrawal slips or similar proof of the money you withdrew.

If you lose your passport

Please send a police report, bills and receipts for travel and accommodation expenses.

If you cancel the trip

Please give the reason for cancelling the trip and send us your booking invoice or receipt and your cancellation invoice. We will need written proof of the reason for cancellation. If cancellation is due to illness or injury, the medical certificate on the cancellation claim form will need to be filled in by the doctor of the person who was ill or injured.

Cutting the trip short

Please give the reason you cut short your trip, confirming that you had to come home early. Before you return home early for medical reasons, you must get a doctor’s certificate to confirm that this is necessary and that you are fit to travel. You must then send this with your claim form.

Delay

When you claim you must ask the airline or transport company to confirm in writing:

1. the cause of the delay or cancellation;
2. the period of the delay;
3. the scheduled time of departure and arrival; and
4. the actual time of departure and arrival.

Missed departure – extra travel and accommodation expenses

Please send confirmation of the delay from the carrier or tour operator. You must also send receipts or bills for your expenses. For car breakdown or accident claims, send the repairer's report or police accident report and details of how you got to the port or airport.

Piste closure

Please ask the relevant authority to confirm in writing that the piste was closed. You must also send your receipts for transport to the other resort and the cost of the lift pass.

Legal expenses

Please send full details of the accident and your injury.

Excesses

If we agree to a claim for medical expenses which has been reduced by your using a European Health Insurance Card or private health insurance, you will not have to pay the excess.

3. You will not be covered for the following

a. Any other loss resulting directly or indirectly from the cause of your claim;

b. Any claim which you could make under any other insurance or any amount you can get back from someone or somewhere else. (this does not apply to Personal Accident);

c. Any claim caused directly or indirectly by:

1. ionising radiation or radioactive contamination from nuclear fuel or nuclear waste, or any risk from an explosive nuclear device or other nuclear equipment;
2. your property being held, taken, destroyed or damaged under the order of any government or other authority;
3. pressure waves caused by aircraft or other flying machines travelling at sonic or supersonic speeds;
4. war, invasion, hostilities (whether war is declared or not) civil unrest, revolution or any similar event. (This does not apply to Medical and Other Expenses while you are away from the United Kingdom.)
5. any equipment, whether or not you own it, failing to recognise, deal or work correctly beyond the date change to the year 2000 or any other date change, or from anyone’s fear of the equipment failing to recognise these changes. (This does not apply to Medical and Other Expenses.)

4. You must follow any suggestions or recommendations made by any government or other authority both before and during the period of insurance.

5. You must do all that you can to keep your claims as low as possible and to prevent theft, loss and damage.

6. If we pay any expenses which you are not covered for, you must pay these back within a month of the end of the period of insurance.

7. If you, or anyone acting for you, deliberately make a false claim or statement, the insurance will end and we will not pay any claims.

8. We may take action against someone in your name to get compensation or security for loss, damage or expenses covered by this insurance. You will not pay anything towards this action, but any amount or security handed over will belong to us.

9. If we have to pay any amounts because of the law of another country and we would not usually have to pay these amounts under the policy, you must repay the amounts to us.

10. All the sums insured and limits set out in this policy include VAT.

11. All claims under the insurance will be governed by English law. Any legal disputes will be heard in an English court.

12. The premium for this insurance includes insurance premium tax where necessary.