Poster: A snowHead
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Hi,
We're going to Andorra in 2 weeks and we were going to book our travel insurance online, then a friend of a friend has said he went last year with travel insurance he booked online but when he got there and needed to go to the hospital with suspected broken ribs they said he insurance was not valid and he had to pay a 1000€ even though his insurance said it was valid in Andorra. He said that you have to buy your insurance from within Andorra at the shops or hotels as any other insurance is invalid
I'm going to email all the companies I have looked at to double check what they say, but Has anyone heard of this before?
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sounds rubbish to me. It may be that he needed to claim the grand back from the insurance rather than the hospital deal with ins co, but it's the insurance co. that's says where it's valid, not the country!
Had similar decades ago in Austria - the bones clinic didn't recognise the ins. cert. we had (provided by Lunn Poly) but it was all sorted in the end.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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fredbob wrote: |
Hi,
He said that you have to buy your insurance from within Andorra at the shops or hotels as any other insurance is invalid
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Cow poo.
The only thing I can think of is that perhaps they are used to people having insurance valid for the EU, when Andorra is not in the EU.
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I've never had a problem claiming for accidents in Andorra, both times we have had to pay the bill, and claim it back from the insurance company on our return home.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Fredbob Did you ask your friend whether he made a claim to his insurance company for the return of the 1,000 euros he spent at the hospital? If not, why not?
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@Jja, same here, paid the bill at the medical centre and claimed back on return home. i definitely checked the Europe bit of the insurance was geographical area not political/economic union.
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I've had a reply from a couple of different insurance companies and they said you need to pay it then claim it back. So just looks like this bloke didn't understand the system properly.
Thanks for everyone's help once again
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