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Car Hire Excess - Why Laya Healthcare Travel Insurance?
Car Hire Excess
Insurance
Welcome to your laya healthcare car
hire excess insurance policy.

This policy document along with your insurance schedule and confirmation
email forms the basis of your contract of insurance. Together, these
documents explain what you are covered for. The policy document contains
conditions and exclusions which you should be aware of. You must keep to
all the terms and conditions of the insurance.

Please read this policy document to make sure that the cover meets your
needs and please check the details outlined within your insurance schedule
and confirmation email to make sure that the information shown is correct.

Signed for and on behalf of

Declan O’Rourke
General Manager
AIG Europe S.A.
30 North Wall Quay, International Financial Services Centre,
Dublin 1, D01 R8H7
Index
Car Hire Excess Insurance
Section 1 – Definitions / Meanings of words used in your policy.............5
Section 2 – Excess Reimbursement........................................................7
Section 3 – Supplemental Liability (SLI) /
              Collision Damage Waiver (CDW)........................................8
Section 4 – Personal Accident.............................................................13
Section 5 – General Exclusions Applicable to this Policy .......................16
Section 6 – Policy Conditions..............................................................17
Section 7 – How we use personal information.....................................18
Section 8 – Cooling Off Period and Cancellation ................................21
Section 9 – What to do in the Event of a Claim ...................................21
Section 10 – Complaints Procedure/Caring for Our Customers ...........22
Car Hire Excess                           it can be found at http:// www.aig.lu/.

Insurance                                 Insurance Compensation Fund
                                          You may be entitled to compensation
Insurance providers                       from the scheme in the unlikely event
Laya healthcare Car Hire Excess           that AIG Europe S.A. cannot meet its
insurance is underwritten by AIG          obligations. The maximum amount
Europe S.A.. AIG Europe S.A., an          that could be available in respect of
insurance undertaking with R.C.S.         any sum due to a policyholder is 65%
Luxembourg number B 218806. AIG           of the sum due or EUR 825,000,
Europe S.A. has its head office at 35     whichever is the lesser.
D Avenue J.F. Kennedy, L-1855,            Further information on the Insurance
Luxembourg, http://www.aig.lu/. AIG       Compensation Fund is available on
Europe S.A. is authorised by the          the Central Bank of Ireland’s website
Luxembourg Ministère des Finances         though the following link:
and supervised by the Commissariat        https://www.centralbank.ie/regulation/
aux Assurances 7, boulevard Joseph        industry- market-sectors/insurance-
II, L-1840 Luxembourg, GD de              reinsurance/solvency-ii/
Luxembourg, Tel.: (+352) 22 69 11 -       insurance-compensation-fund
1, caa@caa.lu, http://www.caa.lu/.
                                          Your Car Hire Excess Insurance
AIG Europe S.A. Ireland branch is an      Welcome to your Laya healthcare Car
insurance company and has its             Hire Excess Insurance policy and thank
registered branch office at 30 North      you for arranging your insurance with
Wall Quay, International Financial        us. It is a contract of insurance
Services Centre, Dublin 1, D01 R8H7       between You, the policyholder, and
and branch registration number            Us, AIG Europe S.A. and is made up
908876 and is regulated for conduct       of this policy document and your
of business in Ireland by the Central     schedule In return for the payment of
Bank of Ireland. Contact details of the   your premium, we will, subject to the
Central Bank of Ireland are P.O. Box      terms, conditions and limitations of
                                          this policy:
                                          n indemnify you for the costs to
559, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01
F7X3. Telephone: 1890 77 77 77.
Fax: 01 6716561. E-mail:                      reimburse you under Section 2
                                              (Excess Reimbursement)
                                          n Indemnity you, if operative, under
enquiries@centralbank.ie. Web:
http://www. centralbank.ie.
                                              Section 3 (Supplemental Liability)
If a solvency and financial condition     n pay the benefit to you under
report of AIG Europe S.A. is available,       Section 4 (Personal Accident)

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Please read this policy document to    schedule, and are shown in bold
make sure that the cover meets your    print. Please also see Section 4,
needs and please check the details     Personal Accident, for definitions that
outlined within your insurance         are specific to that section
schedule and confirmation email to
make sure that the information shown   Accidental damage – means the
is correct.                            sudden and unforeseen accidental
                                       damage to the insured Rental car or
This policy reflects the demands and   any third party property not otherwise
needs of a person who wishes to        specifically excluded from this policy
purchase car hire excess insurance
                                       Rental car – means any car rented
benefits.
                                       under a contract on a daily or weekly
                                       basis from such a rental Company or
AIG Europe S.A, Ireland branch does
                                       Agency, which must be fully licensed
not provide advice or any personal
                                       with the regulatory authority of that
recommendation about this product.
                                       Country, State or Local Authority

Commission & Fees                      Car Rental Agreement - means the
When Laya healthcare sell you a        contract signed by the lead named
policy, Laya healthcare receive        driver (who must be the name on the
commission from the insurer which is   Schedule as issued) that states the
a percentage of the total premium.     excess to which the lead named driver
                                       is responsible

You agree to abide by the              Doctor – means a medical
conditions of the policy.              practitioner who is currently registered
                                       with the appropriate Medical Council
Section 1 –                            to practise medicine. This does not
                                       include:
Definitions /                          n you; or
                                       n your brother, brother-in-law,
Meanings of words                         daughter, daughter-in-law, father,
                                          father-in-law, fiancé, fiancée,
used in your policy                       grandchild, grandparent, husband,
                                          mother, mother-in-law, partner,
We use certain words in this policy       sister, sister-in-law, son, son-in-law
which have a specific meaning. They       or wife
have this specific meaning wherever
they appear in the policy and          Endorsement – means any terms and

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conditions additional to this policy and   and forming part of this policy
specified on your schedule
                                           War – means armed hostilities
Insured person(s) – means the lead         between two or more countries,
contracting person named on this           whether declared or not, or any
policy who must be the person named        warlike activities, including use of
as the main driver in the Car Rental       military force by any sovereign nation
Agreement and is eligible to operate       to achieve economic, geographic,
and drive the Rental Car and who is        nationalistic, political, racial, religious
aged between 21 and 85 years old           or other ends.

Material fact(s) – means any fact,         We, us, our – AIG Europe S.A.
information or change in
circumstances which could have a           Geographical Limit of Cover
bearing on our acceptance of your          (Europe) – Republic of Ireland,
cover or which may increase the            Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
possibility of theft or accidental         and member states of the European
damage covered by your policy of           Union, Andorra, The Azores, Balearic
insurance                                  Islands, Bulgaria, Canary Islands,
                                           Channel Islands, Egypt, Gibraltar,
Period of insurance – means the            Iceland, Liechtenstein, Madeira,
period specified on your schedule          Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Norway,
                                           Romania, Russia (West of the Urals),
Personal Effects – items normally          San Marino, Switzerland, Tunisia,
worn, used or carried by you in daily      Turkey, Ukraine, not exceeding 31
life, but not money, credit cards or       consecutive days for any one car
items held or used for business            rental agreement.
purposes
                                           Geographical Limit of Cover
Premium – means the amount                 (Worldwide) – All countries
referred to as such on your schedule.      excluding; Afghanistan, The Balkans,
                                           Belarus, Cuba, Congo, Iran, Iraq,
Schedule – means the schedule              Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liberia, North
issued to you and any endorsement          Korea, Myanmar, Sudan, Syria,
attaching to it                            Zimbabwe or the Crimea Region, not
                                           exceeding 60 consecutive days for any
You, Your – means the person(s)            one car rental agreement.
named on the schedule attached to

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Section 2 – Excess                        C. Baggage Cover
                                          We shall indemnify the insured
Reimbursement                             person(s) against loss of or damage
                                          to baggage and/or personal effects
What is covered                           as a result of theft or attempted theft
                                          following visible and forcible entry into
A. Damage, Theft, and Loss of Use         the rental car, provided that such
We shall indemnify the insured            theft or attempted theft is proved and
person(s), as named on the Car            that the baggage and/or personal
Rental Agreement, for the amount of       effects are secured in the rental car
the excess for which an insured           in either a locked boot or locked
person is liable under the Car Rental     glove box
Agreement, subject to a maximum of
the amount of the excess or €4,000        We shall indemnify the insured
(or equivalent in local currency)         person(s) for such loss or damage
whichever is the lower for any one        during the period of insurance up to:
claim and subject to a maximum of         • €500 in total for any one claim
the amount of the excess or €5,000        • €150 for any single item
(or equivalent in local currency)
whichever is the lower in any one         The maximum payment for any single
period of insurance, in respect of        item for which an original receipt,
damage (including damage to               proof of purchase or insurance
windows and tyres, the undercarriage      valuation (obtained prior to the loss) is
and the roof), fire or vandalism to, or   not supplied will be €75, subject to a
theft or loss of use of, the rental car   maximum aggregate amount of €250
during the period of insurance            for all such items

B. Car Rental Key Cover                   GEOGRAPHICAL LIMIT OF COVER
We shall indemnify the insured            Section 2 of this insurance (Excess
person(s), for costs incurred up to a     Reimbursement) provides Worldwide
maximum of €600 (or equivalent in         cover, not exceeding 60 consecutive
local currency), for each and every       days for any one car rental
claim but subject to a maximum of         agreement, or Europe cover, not
€2,500 in any one Period, for             exceeding 31 consecutive days for any
replacing a lost or stolen rental car     one car rental agreement, (as stated
key and replacement locks and             in your schedule) but excludes the
locksmith charges                         countries listed at clause 25 in the
                                          exclusions section below, for the
                                          period of insurance

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Section 3 –                                  of use of the rental car issued for
                                             business or pleasure, up to the lower
Supplemental                                 of:

Liability (SLI) /                            n US$ 100,000 (or the equivalent in
                                               local currency), or
Collision Damage                               the value of the rental car;

Waiver (CDW)                                 We will also pay legal costs incurred
                                             with our written consent in the defence
                                             of any claim which may be the subject
Important:                                   of indemnity under this Policy
The cover provided by the
Supplemental Liability section of this       The indemnity provided by this Section
Policy shall apply only in excess of (i.e.   3A shall apply only in excess (i.e. over
over and above) the limits of                and above) the limits of indemnity
indemnity specified under any other          specified under any other insurance
insurance taken out by the                   taken out by the Policyholder
Policyholder and following payment of
the full limits under such other
                                             B. Bodily Injury and Damage to
insurance. Please note that where the
                                             Material Property
Policyholder has taken out liability
                                             We shall indemnify the insured
insurance cover under the Car Rental
                                             person(s) against all sums which they
Agreement, the Policyholder may
                                             shall become legally liable to pay as
consider the amount of cover under
                                             damages and claimants costs in
that agreement to be sufficient, in
                                             respect of claims for bodily injury
which case the Supplemental
                                             and damage to material property
Liability Coverage provided by this
                                             arising out of an accident resulting
Policy may not be required.
                                             from the use of a rental car during
                                             the Period
What is covered
                                             The indemnity provided by this Section
A. Loss Damage Waiver (or                    3B shall apply only in excess of (i.e.
Collision Damage Waiver (CDW)                over and above) the limits of
We will indemnify the insured                indemnity specified under any other
person(s) for losses incurred during a       insurance taken out by the
Covered Rental period, as a result of        Policyholder and the maximum we will
damage, fire, vandalism, theft or loss       pay in respect of all claims arising

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from any one accident shall be the          favour of the insured person(s) in
difference between such limit of            respect of that injury or property
indemnity and US $1,000,000                 damage by a court of law, we shall pay
                                            to the insured person(s) the sum of
C. Un-Insured & Underinsured                damages awarded
Motorist Compensation
                                            The indemnity provided by this Section
Where an insured person(s) is injured
                                            3D shall apply only in excess of (i.e.
by an uninsured or under-insured
                                            over and above) the limits of
motorist, or by a motorist whose
                                            indemnity specified under any other
insurance is repudiated by his/her
                                            insurance taken out by the
insurance company, and the Insured
                                            Policyholder and the maximum we will
Person(s) is awarded damages (not
                                            pay under this Section 3D shall be the
including costs, which are not covered
                                            difference between such limit of
under this policy) in respect of that
                                            indemnity and the amount of damages
injury by a court of law, we shall pay to
                                            (not including costs, which are not
the insured person(s) the uninsured
                                            covered under this policy) awarded in
balance of the award. The indemnity
                                            favour of the insured person(s) up to
provided by this Section 3C shall apply
                                            the sum of US$100,000
only in excess of (i.e. over and above)
the limits of indemnity specified under
any other insurance taken out by the        E. Lost or Stolen Rental Car Keys
Policyholder and the maximum we will        We shall indemnify insured person(s)
pay under this Section 3C shall be          for costs incurred, up to a maximum of
the the difference between such limit of    €600 for each and every claim, subject
indemnity and the amount of damages         to a maximum of €2,500 for all claims
(not including costs, which are not         in any one period of insurance, for
covered under this policy) awarded in       the costs of replacing a lost or stolen
favour of the insured person(s)             rental car key, including replacement
against the motorist for which that         locks and locksmith charges The
motorist is uninsured up to the sum of      indemnity provided by this Section 3E
US$100,000                                  shall apply only in excess of (i.e. over
                                            and above) the limits of indemnity
D. Hit and Run Motorist                     specified under any other insurance
Compensation                                taken out by the Policyholder
Where an insured person(s) is injured,
or his/her property is damaged by an        GEOGRAPHICAL LIMIT OF COVER
unidentified or untraceable motorist,       Section 3 of this insurance (SLI/CDW)
and an award of damages is made in          provides cover in respect of events

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taking place in the USA and/or                  n or deliberate or reckless
Canada only (or if specifically noted              exposure to danger (except in
on your Schedule, in South & Central               an attempt to save human life).
America) for the period of insurance,     5.    Loss arising from, or in
not exceeding 60 consecutive days for           connection with, any fraudulent,
any one car rental agreement.                   dishonest or criminal act
                                                committed by any insured
What is not Covered                             person(s) or any person with
                                                whom they are in collusion
– Sections 2 and 3                        6.    Loss arising from the operation of
                                                the rental car in violation of the
We will not cover the following:                terms of the Car Rental
1. Any insured person(s) where the              Agreement.
   appropriate or additional              7.    Loss arising from, or in
   premium has not been paid in full            connection with, transporting
2. Insurance effected in                        contraband or illegal trade
   circumstances where a claim            8.    Loss arising from driving by
   might reasonably be anticipated              persons who are not named in the
3. Loss, damage, accidents,                     Car Rental Agreement
   proceedings or any other events        9.    Losses occurring whilst driving
   that may otherwise give rise to a            other than on a dedicated public
   claim under this policy where                highway
   Claims Notification has not been       10.   Driving by persons who do not
   made within 31 days of the                   have a valid driving licence
   occurrence of the loss, damage,        11.   Losses where the rental car is
   accident, insured person(s)                  not licensed for road use
   becoming aware of proceedings,         12.   Insured person(s) when driving
   or other event                               any kind of vehicle while the
4. Loss arising from:                           alcohol level in their blood is
   n deliberately self-inflicted injury         higher than the legal limit of the
       or illness,                              country where the incident occurs
   n alcoholism or the use of             13.   Losses where the rental car is
       alcohol, the use of drugs other          used in, or training for, racing
       than in accordance with the              competitions, trials, rallies or
       manufacturer’s instruction or            speed testing
       treatment prescribed and           14.   Fines, penalties, exemplary or
       directed by a registered doctor,         punitive damages or any other
   n the use of drugs for the                   type or kind of judgment or award
       treatment of drug addiction,             which does not compensate the

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party benefiting from the award or          Canada, The Caribbean, South
      constitute a judgment for any               and Central America.
      actual loss or damage sustained       25.   In respect of any claim under
15.   Loss or damage which, but for               Section 2 (Excess Reimbursement),
      the existence of this insurance,            loss or damage arising from any
      should be recoverable under any             journey in, to or through the
      other insurance                             following countries;
16.   Any expenses assumed, waived or             Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba,
      paid by the Rental Company or its           Congo, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast,
      insurers.                                   Liberia, Lebanon, North Korea,
17.   Loss arising in respect of vehicles         Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, The
      which are not rental cars                   Balkans, Zimbabwe or the
18.   Expenses reimbursed by any                  Crimea Region
      insured person's employers'           26.   Losses arising outside the period
      insurer                                     of insurance
19.   Loss arising from wear and tear,      27.   Anyone under 21 years or over
      gradual deterioration, insect or            84 years of age
      vermin, inherent vice or inherent     28.   Any claim under Section 2A
      damage                                      (Damage, Theft and Loss of Use)
20.   Loss arising on the rental of any           or Section 3A (Loss Damage
      vehicle other than a private car            Waiver) arising from theft,
      with less than 9 seats                      attempted theft or vandalism which
21.   Loss arising on the rental of               is not reported to an appropriate
      "expensive or exotic" vehicles not          police authority within 24 hours of
      considered to be a conventional             theft, attempted theft or vandalism
      and usual rental car, and                   or where an official police report
      “antique” vehicles, which are over          has not been obtained
      20 years old or which have not        29.   Any claim under Section 2C
      been manufactured for 10 years              (Baggage Cover) arising from
      or more or any vehicle with a               1) theft or damage of banknotes,
      retail purchase price in excess of              currency notes and coins,
      €100,000                                        photographic or video
22.   Damage to the rental car’s                      equipment, camcorders, radios
      contents                                        or personal stereo equipment,
23.   Replacement of locks when only                  computers, computer games or
      the parts need to be changed                    associated equipment, mobile
24.   The hire of a rental car by an                  telephones, telescopes or
      individual whose main residence                 binoculars, furs, jewellery,
      is located within the USA or                    watches, or articles made of or

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containing gold, silver or other          consequence of such bodily injury
        precious metals                       33. Bodily injury to any fellow
    2) wear, tear or depreciation of              employee of an Insured Person,
        baggage and/or personal                   sustained while as a passenger in
        effects                                   the rental car and arising out of
    3) claims arising from theft or               and in the course of the fellow
        attempted theft which is not              employee’s employment
        reported to an appropriate            34. Damage to material property
        police authority within 24 hours          transported by an Insured
        of discovery or where an                  Person or in the care, custody or
        official police report has not            control of an insured person
        been obtained                         35. Bodily injury or damage to
    4) loss or damage arising from                material property arising out of
        theft or attempted theft in respect       the actual, alleged or threatened
        of which evidence of forced               discharge, dispersal, seepage,
        entry has not been confirmed by           migration, release or escape of
        the Rental Company and/or                 pollutants
        police, or where baggage              36. Loss or destruction of or damage
        and/or personal effects were              to any property whatsoever, or
        not within a locked boot or               any liability, loss or exposure
        locked glove box                          whatsoever resulting or arising
30. Benefits payable under any                    there from, or any consequential
    uninsured or underinsured                     loss directly or indirectly caused
    motorist law, first party benefit             by or contributed to by or arising
    law or no-fault law, or law similar           from (a) ionising radiation or
    to the foregoing in any territory or          contamination by radioactivity
    jurisdiction                                  from any nuclear fuel or any
31. Any obligation for which an insured           waste or the combustion of
    person may be held liable under               nuclear fuel or (b) radioactive
    any Workers Compensation Act,                 toxic explosive or other hazardous
    disability benefits or unemployment           properties or any explosive
    law or any similar law                        nuclear assembly or nuclear
32. Bodily injury to any person                   component thereof
    employed by an insured person             37. Loss or damage directly or
    and arising out of and in the                 indirectly occasioned by,
    course of such employment or the              happening through, or in
    spouse, child, parent, brother or             consequence of war, invasion,
    sister of such employee as a                  acts of foreign enemies, hostilities

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(whether war be declared or not),       events which occur or develop over
    civil war, rebellion, revolution,       time that cannot be attributable to a
    insurrection, terrorism, military or    single accident
    usurped power or confiscation or
    nationalisation or requisition or       Hospital – means an institution which
    destruction of or damage to the         has accommodation for in-patients
    rental car or to property by or         and facilities for diagnosis, surgery
    under the order of any government       and treatment. It does not include a
    or public or local authority            long-term nursing home, a
                                            rehabilitation centre, an old people’s
                                            or convalescence home or an
SECTION 4 -                                 extended-care facility.
                                            Hospitalisation – means admission
Personal Accident                           to a hospital as an in-patient and for
                                            at least 24 hours in a row
Definitions / Meanings of words
used in this section                        Loss – means permanent, total and
Accident – means a sudden,                  irrecoverable loss of use, or the
unexpected, and specific event,             permanent and total loss by physical
external to the body which occurs at        severance (separation), of a limb
an identifiable place and time during       being a complete:
the period of insurance which results       n foot or leg; or
in bodily injury                            n hand or arm

Bodily injury – means identifiable          Loss of sight – means the physical
physical injury to your body which is       loss of one or both eyes or the loss of
caused directly and solely by an            a substantial part of the sight of one
accident, is not intentionally self         or both eyes. A substantial part means
inflicted and does not result from          that the degree of sight remaining
sickness or disease                         after the bodily injury is 3/60 or less
                                            on the Snellen scale after correction
Benefit – means the amounts payable         with spectacles or contact lenses. (At
under items 1-9 in the Table of             3/60 on the Snellen scale a person
benefits shown in this section of the       can see at 3 feet something that a
policy                                      person who has not suffered loss of
Coma – means your continuous                sight should be able to see at 60 feet)
unconscious state
                                            Operative time – means whilst
Gradually operating cause – means           driving, entering or alighting from an
a cause that is the result of a series of

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insured rental car during the period
                                          Benefit                          Sum Insured
of insurance and within the
geographical limits of cover limits       Item 1 - Death                    €20,000

Paraplegia – means the permanent          Item 2 - Loss of one limb or
and total paralysis of lower limbs,                                         €10,000
                                          loss of sight in one eye
bladder and rectum
                                          Item 3 - Loss of one or more
Permanent total disablement –             limbs or loss of one limb and     €20,000
means disability, other than by loss of   loss of sight in one eye
limb or loss of sight, which totally
and permanently prevents you from
doing any paid work whatsoever for        Item 4 - Loss of sight in both
                                                                            €20,000
                                          eyes
the remainder of your life

Quadriplegia – means the                  Item 5 – Permanent total
                                                                            €20,000
permanent and total paralysis of both     disablement
upper limbs and both lower limbs
                                          Item 6 - Quadriplegia             €40,000

What is Covered –                         Item 7 - Paraplegia               €25,000

Section 4                                 Item 8 - Hospitalisation for
If you suffer bodily injury during the    each week payable for maxi-
operative time which, within two          mum of 10 weeks in total           €100
years solely and independently of any     within 24 months from the date
other cause, results in death, loss of    of bodily injury
limb, loss of sight, permanent total
disablement, quadriplegia,
                                          Item 9 - Coma benefit per
paraplegia, hospitalisation or
                                          week payable for up to 26
coma, we will pay to you, or your
                                          continuous weeks in total          €100
legal representative if you die, the      within 24 months from the date
appropriate item shown in the Table of    of bodily injury
Benefits below

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What is Not                                     prescribed by a doctor
                                            8. You driving a rental car when
Covered – Section 4                             your are not in possession of a
                                                valid licence to drive such a
                                                vehicle as required by law
We will not pay any claim directly or       9. Suicide or attempted suicide or
indirectly resulting from, contributed by       intentional self inflicted injuries
or arising from;                            10. Any claim for bodily injury
                                                which is directly or indirectly
1. You being under 21 years of age              resulting from any gradually
   at the date of the accident                  operating cause
2. War, civil war, invasion,                11. Whilst using the insured rental
   insurrection, revolution, use of             car for racing or competition or
   military power, or usurpation of             when using the insured rental
   government by military power                 car for hire, reward, courier
3. Permanent total disablement                  services, or the carriage of
   benefit if you are over 65 years             paying passengers
   of age
4. Any claim for bodily injury which
   is directly or indirectly resulting      Provisions relating
   from anxiety, stress disorder, post
   traumatic stress disorder,               to Section 4
   psychological or psychiatric illness
   or condition or other mental or          1. If death occurs within thirteen
   nervous disorder                            weeks of bodily injury, the
5. You being in charge of a rental             benefit under item 1 will be paid
   car having a blood/urine                    and not the benefits under items
   alcohol level above the legal               2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 as long as death
   limit stated in the Road Traffic            was a result of bodily injury
   Acts of that particular country          2. When more than one form of
6. Back injuries unless supported by           disability results in bodily injury
   a diagnosis using appropriate               from the same accident the
   medical imaging techniques                  maximum amount payable will be
   (such as X-rays, CT or MRI scans)           €40,000
7. You being in charge of a rental          3. Upon the payment of a claim
   car having taken drugs other                under items 1- 7 cover will stop in
   than in accordance with the                 respect of the person for whom
   manufacturers instructions or as            such payment is made

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4. A daily rate of 1/7th of the weekly         or satellite systems failure
   rate will be payable in respect of      10. Losses due to property that has
   periods of hospitalisation of less          been confiscated, destroyed or
   than 7 days.                                seized by any government or
                                               public entity
Section 5 - General                        11. Losses due to fire, smoke,
                                               lightning, wind, water, flood,
Exclusions                                     earthquake, volcanic eruption,
                                               tidal wave, landslide, hail,
Applicable to this                             vermin, insects or act of God
                                           12. Ionising radiation or
Policy                                         contamination by radioactivity
                                               from any nuclear fuel, or from
                                               any nuclear waste from burning
We will not cover the following:               of nuclear fuel, or the
                                               radioactive, toxic, explosive or
1. Any car not specified on your               other hazardous properties of
   schedule as the property insured            any explosive nuclear assembly
2. Any amount in excess of the sum             or nuclear component thereof or
   insured, or value, whichever is             Pressure waves from aircraft or
   less;                                       other aerial devices travelling at
3. Any car where evidence of                   supersonic speeds
   ownership has not been provided         13. Claims arising out of the misuse
4. Any losses arising out of driving           of a solvent or solvents by
   as your occupation or profession            inhalation
5. Losses that result from the direct      14. Notwithstanding any provision to
   actions of member of your family,           the contrary within the insurance
   or actions that a member of your            or any endorsement thereto we
   family knew about or planned                shall not be liable in respect of
6. Depreciation or consequential               liability loss damage cost or
   loss of any kind                            expense of whatsoever nature
7. Losses caused by illegal acts               directly or indirectly caused by,
8. Losses that you have intentionally          resulting from or in connection
   caused                                      with any of the following
9. Losses due to mechanical failure,           regardless of any other cause or
   electrical failure, software failure,       event contributing concurrently or
   or data failure including, but not          in any other sequence to the loss
   limited to any electrical power             (i) war invasion, acts of foreign
   interruption, surge, brownout or                enemies, hostilities, or warlike
   blackout, or telecommunications                 operations (whether war be

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declared or not), civil war,               cover, payment of such claim
       mutiny, civil commotion                    or provision of such benefit
       assuming the proportions of or             would expose the Insurer, its
       amounting to a popular                     parent company or its ultimate
       uprising, military rising,                 controlling entity to any
       insurrection, rebellion,                   sanction, prohibition or
       revolution, military or usurped            restriction under United
       power, martial law, confiscation           Nations resolutions or the trade
       or nationalisation or requisition          or economic sanctions, laws or
       by or under the order of any               regulations of the European
       Government or public or local              Union or the United States of
       authority                                  America.
   (ii) any act of terrorism – means
       an act, including but not limited
       to the use of force or violence
                                            Section 6 - Policy
       and/or the threat thereof, of
       any person or group(s) of
                                            Conditions
       persons, whether acting alone
       or on behalf of or in connection     1. You must be a resident of the
       with any organisation(s) or             Republic of Ireland and at least
       government(s), committed for            21 years of age
       political, religious, ideological    2. Unless we have agreed otherwise
       or other purposes including the         with you, Irish Law and the
       intention to influence any              decisions of the Irish Courts will
       government and/or to put the            govern this insurance
       public, or in any section of the     3. This insurance may only be
       public, in fear                         altered, varied or its conditions
15. Any car rental agreement                   relaxed, or premiums changed by
        exceeding 31 consecutive days          one of our authorised officials,
        for Europe cover or any car            giving you 30 days notice in
        rental agreement exceeding             writing to your last known address
        60 consecutive days for                or via your insurance intermediary
        Worldwide cover.                    4. This insurance is non-transferable
16. The Insurer shall not be                5. Cover excludes costs or payments
        deemed to provide cover and            recoverable from any party, under
        the Insurer shall not be liable        the terms of any other insurance,
        to pay any claim or provide            including but not limited to your
        any benefit hereunder to the           household or motor insurance,
        extent that the provision of such      unless agreed by us, other than

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section 4 (Personal Accident)              necessary or reasonably required
6. Any dispute regarding the terms of          for the purpose of exercising this
    this contract including any                right. You will take no action or
    question regarding its existence,          make any agreements that may
    validity or termination will be            weaken or remove our rights
    referred to and resolved by                under this clause without our
    arbitration in the Republic of             prior written permission. We will
    Ireland in accordance with the             pay any costs or expenses
    Arbitration Laws of the Republic           involved in exercising our right of
    of Ireland during the term of this         subrogation
    contract                               11. The observance by you of the
7. The benefits detailed in this               terms, conditions and
    policy in respect of the rental car        endorsements of this policy as
    are only payable to you and any            far as they relate to anything to
    claim may only be presented by             be done or complied with by you
    you                                        will be a condition precedent to
8. If you or anyone acting on your             any liability by us
    behalf makes a claim under this
    policy and know the claim is false
    or fraudulent in any way, the
                                           Section 7 – How we
    cover is void, the claim will not be
    paid and all monies received by
                                           use personal
    you or your representatives, must
    be immediately repaid to us
                                           information
9. The cover under this policy is          AIG Europe S.A. is committed to
    based on information you have          protecting the privacy of customers,
    given us and confirmed on your         claimants and other business contacts.
    schedule. You must tell us as
    soon as possible if any of this        “Personal Information” identifies and
    information changes, as your           relates to you or other individuals (e.g.
    cover may be affected and may          your partner or other members of your
    be invalidated in the event of a       family). If you provide Personal
    claim                                  Information about another individual,
10. In the event that a third party is     you must (unless we agree otherwise)
    deemed liable for part or all of       inform the individual about the content
    any claim, we may exercise our         of this notice and our Privacy Policy and
    right of subrogation. You shall, at    obtain their permission (where possible)
    our request and our expense,           for sharing of their Personal Information
    agree to and permit us to do           with us.
    such acts and things as may be

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The types of Personal Information               and security purposes
we may collect and why –                    •   Market research and analysis
Depending on our relationship with
you, Personal Information collected         Sharing of Personal Information -
may include: contact information,           For the above purposes Personal
financial information and account           Information may be shared with our
details, credit reference and scoring       group companies and third parties
information, sensitive information          (such as brokers and other insurance
about health or medical conditions          distribution parties, insurers and
(collected with your consent where          reinsurers, credit reference agencies,
required by applicable law) as well as      healthcare professionals and other
other Personal Information provided         service providers). Personal
by you or that we obtain in                 Information will be shared with other
connection with our relationship with       third parties (including government
you. Personal Information may be            authorities) if required by laws or
used for the following purposes:            regulations. Personal Information
                                            (including details of injuries) may be
•   Insurance administration, e.g.          recorded on claims registers shared
    communications, claims                  with other insurers. We are required to
    processing and payment                  register all third party claims for
•   Make assessments and decisions          compensation relating to bodily
    about the provision and terms of        injury to workers’ compensation
    insurance and settlement of             boards. We may search these registers
    claims                                  to prevent, detect and investigate
•   Assistance and advice on medical        fraud or to validate your claims
    and travel matters                      history or that of any other person or
•   Management of our business              property likely to be involved in the
    operations and IT infrastructure        policy or claim. Personal Information
•   Prevention, detection and               may be shared with prospective
    investigation of crime, e.g. fraud      purchasers and purchasers, and
    and money laundering                    transferred upon a sale of our
•   Establishment and defence of            company or transfer of business
    legal rights                            assets.
•   Legal and regulatory compliance
    (including compliance with laws         International transfer - Due to the
    and regulations outside your            global nature of our business,
    country of residence)                   Personal Information may be
•   Monitoring and recording of             transferred to parties located in other
    telephone calls for quality, training   countries (including the United States,

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China, Mexico Malaysia, Philippines,        Your rights – You have a number of
Bermuda and other countries which           rights under data protection law in
may have a data protection regime           connection with our use of Personal
which is different to that in your          Information. These rights may only
country of residence). When making          apply in certain circumstances and are
these transfers, we will take steps to      subject to certain exemptions. These
ensure that your Personal Information       rights may include a right to access
is adequately protected and                 Personal Information, a right to correct
transferred in accordance with the          inaccurate data, a right to erase data
requirements of data protection law.        or suspend our use of data. These
Further information about                   rights may also include a right to
international transfers is set out in our   transfer your data to another
Privacy Policy (see below).                 organisation, a right to object to our
                                            use of your Personal Information, a
Security of Personal Information –          right to request that certain automated
Appropriate technical and physical          decisions we make have human
security measures are used to keep          involvement, a right to withdraw
your Personal Information safe and          consent and a right to complain to the
secure. When we provide Personal            data protection regulator. Further
Information to a third party (including     information about your rights and
our service providers) or engage a          how you may exercise them is set out
third party to collect Personal             in full in our Privacy Policy (see
Information on our behalf, the third        below).
party will be selected carefully and
required to use appropriate security        Privacy Policy - More details about
measures.                                   your rights and how we collect, use
                                            and disclose your Personal
                                            Information can be found in our full
                                            Privacy Policy at:
                                            https://www.aig.ie/privacy-policy or
                                            you may request a copy by writing to:
                                            Data Protection Officer, AIG Europe
                                            S.A., 30 North Wall Quay,
                                            International Financial Service Centre,
                                            Dublin 1 or by email at:
                                            dataprotectionofficer.ie@aig.com.

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Section 8 – Cooling                         is paid by direct debit, you must tell
                                            your chosen bank, building society or
Off Period and                              financial institution to stop making
                                            payments
Cancellation                                If we cancel this policy we will give
                                            you 7 days notice in writing and we
Cooling Off period                          will return to you the unused portion
If this cover does not meet your            of the premium
needs, you may return this policy and
schedule to us within 14 days of the        This insurance will automatically
start date of cover shown in the            cancel:
original schedule or the day, on                 n if the premium is not paid.
which you receive this policy and                n if you submit a claim knowing
schedule, whichever is the later                    it to be false, fraudulent or a
                                                    misrepresentation
If you cancel this policy within the
cooling-off period and there are no
claims, you will receive a full refund in
premium including any
                                            Section 9 - What to
administration charge. However, if
there has been a claim, we will not
                                            do in the Event of a
refund any part of the premium or           Claim
any administration fee
                                            Should you wish to claim under this
Cancellation                                policy you should call AIG Claims
You can cancel this policy at any time      Department as soon as possible and
after the cooling-off period by giving      no later than 31 days after the
us notice in writing to AIG Europe          incurred loss. You must give us any
S.A., 30 North Wall Quay,                   information or help that we ask for.
International Financial Services            You must not settle, reject, negotiate
Centre, Dublin 1 or by e-mail to            or agree to pay any claim without our
layahealthcare.carhireexcessinsurance       written permission. Full details of how
@aig.com. If you cancel this policy         to claim are set out below
after the cooling-off period, we will
not refund any premium for the              How to Make a Claim
remainder of the policy term. If this       To make a claim, You must contact
policy is cancelled and the premium         us.

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Phone: +353 1 2081400                        damages claimed
Fax Number: + 353 1 2837773              8. A copy of the driving licence of
Email: claims.ie@aig.com                     the person driving the rented
                                             vehicle involved in the accident
In the event of any accidents,               (the driver)
proceedings or any other events that     9. The name and address of your
may give rise to a claim, please             bank together with the sort code
contact us within 31 days of the             and account details. This will
incurred loss to notify us and request       facilitate reimbursement as we
a claim form to be sent to you by            prefer to make the payment
email, fax or post. You can also use         directly to your bank
the email link on the Claims Page of     10. Medical certification and/or a
our website shown above to notify us         death certificate in respect of any
Please fully complete, sign and date         claims under Section 4, Personal
the claim form and return it with all        Accident
supporting documentation outlined
below by email, fax or post:             You should read the above
                                         carefully as it is necessary to
1. A copy of your policy from us         comply with the conditions of this
2. A copy of your Car Rental             policy. Failure to abide by the
   Agreement.                            conditions of this policy, may
3. A copy of your Charge Receipt (if     invalidate your claim.
   separate from the Rental
   Agreement)
4. If the incident by law requires the
                                         Section 10 -
   attendance of the Police, we will
   require a copy of the Police
                                         Complaints
   Report
5. Renter's copy of the rental
                                         Procedure/Caring
   company's accident damage
   report
                                         for Our Customers
6. Invoices / receipts / other
   documents confirming the amount       AIG Europe S.A. wants to give you the
   you have paid in respect of           best possible service. If you feel you
   Accident / Damage / Loss etc.         have cause for complaint, you should
   for which the Vehicle Rental          contact:
   Company holds you responsible
7. A copy of your credit card            The Customer Complaints Officer
   statement showing payment of the      AIG Europe S.A.,

                                                          Car Hire Excess Insurance 22
30 North Wall Quay,                       Your right to take legal action is not
IFSC,                                     affected by following any of the above
Dublin 1,                                 procedures.
D01 R8H7.
                                          JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE
Phone: +353 1 208 1400                    LAW
E-mail: customercomplaints.ie@aig.com     All claims by the insured person(s)
Website: www.aig.ie/complaints            under this Policy shall be governed by
                                          the laws of the Republic of Ireland
At any stage you may contact any of       whose courts alone shall have
the following:                            jurisdiction in any dispute arising
                                          under this insurance.
Insurance Ireland
Insurance Centre,
5 Harbourmaster Place,
IFSC,
Dublin 1,
D01 E7E8.

Phone: +353 1 676 1820
Fax: +353 1 676 1943
E-mail: feedback@insuranceireland.eu
Website: http://www.insuranceireland.eu

Financial Services and Pensions
Ombudsman
3rd Floor,
Lincoln House,
Lincoln Place,
Dublin 2,
D02 VH29.

Phone: +353 1 567 7000
E-mail: info@fspo.ie
Website: www.fspo.ie

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AIG Europe S.A., Ireland Branch is an insurance company

         We don't provide advice or any personal recommendation
                            about this product

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Laya healthcare Car Hire Excess insurance is underwritten by AIG Europe S.A..

                              AIG Europe S.A.
    30 North Wall Quay, International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1,
                                 D01 R8H7.

 AIG Europe S.A. is authorised by the Luxembourg Ministère des Finances and
supervised by the Commissariat aux Assurances, and is regulated by the Central
                 Bank of Ireland for conduct of business rules.
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