Tesco Travel Insurance

[Highlander]

I post this for members information. You are free to form your own opinion as regard validity issues.

The circumstances were as follows:
Flights cancelled for medical reasons, one hour before flight due to take off.
We had been through security and had boarding cards:

Paid for under insurance:
Holiday Flights
Hotel accommodation in Turkey
Travel: Return train journey Glasgow to Inverness.

Not allowed under insurance:
Administration Costs from Airline
Hotel Accommodation: Hotel Room to be used on our return from Turkey.
Emergency Car Travel: My son to Glasgow to take me home (essential)
Emergency Hotel Accommodation: One room for Brenda and one room for my son while I was detained overnight in hospital.
Completion of Medical Form.
Spectacles: Damaged beyond repair.

Incident:              June 13 (a Friday as it happened)
Notification of Claim: June 30
Follow-up Letter:      July 14
Verbal offer
(still to be verified) Sept 19

To date no cheque issued

[stoop]

Doesn't sound too clever but insurance is a minefiled of small print. Who underwrites it? Is it Royal Bank of Scotland or someone else?

[puma]

H they only won't your money they don't really like to pay out
hope i get my money back for my dentistry work
good luck H

[Scunner]

Sell it to ivory traders Pumes it might be quicker