Travel Insurance Reviews Crum & Forster - Travel Insured International

Although it took 7 months, I finally received my trip interruption insurance claim from C&F. Since I purchased the policy through Insure My Trip, I reached out to them, 3 months in, to try to push C&F to respond to my claim. Insure My Trip was very helpful in clarifying the hold up and with further help from my travel agency, Pavlus, I was finally able to get the compensation I was due.

Kudos to you if you are reading reviews.  Our family of four has exclusively used Travel Insured for our trips abroad for several years.  They are fabulous when you do not have a claim as you are reading in other 5 star ratings.  Therefore, all reviews where a claim was not made must absolutely be disregarded!
 
Not only was my medical claim supported by our licensed physical declined, it took EIGHT & A HALF MONTHS for the claim to even be processed.  The ONLY time our claims analyst handled our paperwork was when we made an inquiry and when she phoned to inform us our claim has been denied.  Our claim should have been processed before COVID was an issue. Our claim documents were completely submitted a full 8 weeks before WHO declared a global emergency and 15 weeks before COVID was declared a national emergency in the United States.  Despite these facts, our claims analyst blamed the slow process on COVID.  Additionally, it took over six weeks for Travel Insured to upload the third set of requested documents to their system and another eight weeks after that before finally rejecting our claim on grounds they could have indicated months ago.  This company has kept our family in unnecessary limbo.
 
Read the fine print. Our claim was denied base on one minor requirement that didn’t even make sense in the context of the claim. There are other companies that provide better coverage and superior customer service. Unless you pay extra for the “Cancel For Any Reason” policy, you are probably wasting your money. Even with CFAR, there is fine print and you are only insured for 75% of your policy. Keep researching and don’t forget some credit cards offer as much coverage as travel insurance!

My claim experience with this company has been one of the worst experiences ever. To make a long story short, after receiving a partial check for my claim, I tried to invoke the appeals procedure as contained in the policy. I called, emailed, and wrote numerous times. I was completely ignored. I never received a reply to any request. I wrote requesting a formal appeal and never received a reply. I contacted insuremytrip,com and they were of no help. I would not recommend using this company.

I purchased travel insurance for a plane ticket. When the program was canceled and my daughter had to return home, we had to purchase another flight home. After waiting 9 weeks for the claim to be processed, we were denied, saying that it was not a "covered reason". Why did I buy insurance if the trip cancellation has so many loopholes that it won't pay? I will NEVER buy insurance from you again and I travel quite a bit. Furthermore, I will review you negatively on every site I can find....and tell everyone I know NOT to use you.

Revised review: I don't judge an organization on whether or not a mistake is made, I judge it on how it responds to its own mistake. My experience was that this company would not "make right" its own mistake (after weeks of phone calls) until I wrote an appeal and until InsureMyTrip got involved to advocate for me. Then finally I got the money expected. Details ...

I bought this policy with an optional upgrade. After Lufthansa damaged a piece of our Rimowa luggage I called TI International to verify the benefits available to me under my plan and was told over the phone that our coverage for one piece of luggage would be up to $500. So I went through the process of filing a claim with Lufthansa and getting a repair estimate with Rimowa. I accepted Lufthansa's offer of $150 because I knew that I had $500 of coverage with this trip insurance. So when Rimowa told me it would cost about $680 to replace the luggage (our's was not fixable) I didn't worry.

After filing the claim with TI International, I find out that they would only send a check for $250. I called them, certain this was an error, but apparently our plan only covered $250 for a piece of luggage. I take good notes and pointed out that their own representative verified we were covered for $500, and was told management will review the audio of the phone call. Management did review the phone call and did admit that indeed their representative told me the bag was covered for $500, but since I didn't purchase the policy based on false information they would only be paying me $250. They gave an example of if I had lost luggage and called to find out what our coverage was to buy clothes, etc. on our trip and was given the wrong coverage number and then spent money based on that incorrect number, they'd cover that. After telling them that indeed I did base a financial decision based on the wrong coverage number, i.e. I accepted Lufthansa's $150 offer because I knew I had $500 coming to replace the bag, their response was I could go back to Lufthansa and try to get more!!! I do not see how this is different from the example they provided of someone spending more on clothes because they were told an incorrect coverage amount over the phone.

After many phone calls they admitted several times that their representative gave me the wrong coverage information and said they made sure to correct her for future interactions. They apologized. But they would not financially stand behind their clear and verified mistake and sent me just $250. They even suggested I should have known what the coverage was by reading their long form coverage document, but I pointed out that their own employee who works with this all day did not know what the coverage amount was!

I wrote an appeal to TI International, wrote my original review here, and InsureMyTrip got involved to advocate for me (appreciated). Then TI International left me a voicemail apologizing and sent me a check for the other $250.

After waiting over 40 days for this company to honor my claim I had to contact Insure My Trip. Within 4 days, this company reviewed and paid my claim. I sent EVERYTHING to this company on February 20th including all medical records, emergency room records, and all of the documents they required along with letters from my physician and travel agent. They had ALL the documentation they needed on February 20th, and I finally received a check on April 10th ONLY after contacting Insure My Trip. I would not use this company again!

Everyone should travel with this insurance. We had problems with a very uncooperative airline. But these people took care of things. Thank you!

I had to file a claim when AA canceled my flight a few hours before my trip. I contacted C&F Travel Insured, and after my cruise l sent in the paperwork needed. It took about a month, but I received a call today stating l would have a check in about a week. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, l think that is a wonderful turn around. Thank you!

My wife and I were on a land and sea vacation with Princess Cruises. My wife became ill the last 3 days on the Coral Princess. We had to see the doctor at 3:45am. When we returned home I submitted the appropriate paper work required by C&F Travel insurance. Three weeks later I received an email from them stating that they approved our claim and a check would be sent to us in about on week. Glad we purchased the travel insurance. We have purchased travel insurances in the past on many of our trips and never used it. On this trip it paid off!!
We did pay for the option of making this insurance our primary so we did not have to submit multiple paperwork. One negative comment is that when submitting documents via email to C&F you can only send a maximum of a 12mb file which was not stated in there forms. I had to submit 2 different files.
I would recommend C&F Travel Insured International Worldwide Trip Protector. In my case, they came through!

L&B