The U.S. State Department’s travel alert may be enough to spook you out of your trip to Europe, but it won’t be enough to get your money back via trip insurance should you decide not to go, according to the travel-insurance comparison site Squaremouth. Sunday’s alert would had to have gone as far as advising against travel to make travelers eligible for an insurance claim. Instead, the department put the word out that American travelers simply should use caution, citing intelligence suggesting that terrorists may be plotting a Mumbai-style attack.
“Travelers to Europe should pay close attention to the wording in their travel insurance policies, as an alert is not a covered reason to cancel,” Squaremouth CEO Chris Harvey warned in a statement. Furthermore, “now that the terror threat is in the news, no new policy will cover it even if the advisory changes.”
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