How Does Travel Insurance Work?

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Travel Insurance Coverage Highlights

How Are Essential and Enhanced Passport 360 Different?

The two plans offer many of the same benefits, but at different coverage levels. For example, the Enhanced plan provides more coverage for excess medical expenses, felonious assault, common carrier, and accidental death and dismemberment, as shown below.

 

  Essential Passport 360   Enhanced Passport 360
Medical evacuation and repatriation
  $250,000

 
Excess medical expense* $50,000*   $100,000*
Political evacuation
  $100,000  
Felonious Assault $25,000   $100,000
Common carrier N/A   Up to $1 million
Accidental death and dismemberment Up to $100,000   Up to $250,000

 

*Excess medical expense is not intended to take the place of primary medical coverage, and is not available to residents of CT, GA, MD, NH, NJ, or VA. 

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