Last month the Foreign Office ran a campaign raising the dangers we face (discussed on J2Ski - skiers risk injury and expensive medical bills) and now the BBC are looking for someone with first-hand experience of expenses they turned out not to be covered for.
A friendly BBC person wrote:
the travel news programme Fast Track, that broadcasts globally on the BBC World News Channel ... is putting together a news piece about the Foreign Office's warning that tourists should check their ski insurance covers them properly against injury.
To highlight this issue we really need a case study of a skier that had travel insurance, but then found out they weren't covered and had to pay expensive medical bills. From reading around the usual reasons are because the injured person was – skiing off-piste, not wearing a helmet, night skiing etc.
I was hoping you might have a case study in your forum that we would be able to speak to about this? We want to make a film about this, so that hopefully people won't be caught out in the future!
Any volunteers (fully recovered, hopefully)?
For anyone who missed them, some recent discussions have included :-
check the small print on your travel insurance - following snowlily's distressing experience.
Travel Insurance Woes & Tips - documenting the appalling prevarication encountered when Msej449 made what should have been a straightforward claim.
The old insurance question - one of our regular discussion points...
etc...