For the first time in Sri Lanka, Fairfirst offers travel insurance with COVID cover

Fairfirst Insurance Chief Technical Officer Priyantha Perera

Fairfirst Insurance offers a redefined travel insurance in the new normal by covering expenses arising from COVID-19. Allowing travellers to continue on their globe trot, Fairfirst Travel Insurance ensures

that not only do customers get to experience their adventures again, but they get to travel with a plan exclusively designed to cover expenses against risks arising from COVID-19. 

Therefore, with the focus of making travel safe and smart again, Fairfirst Travel Insurance offers the below benefits which can be purchased from the safety and comfort of the customers’ homes via the company’s website www.fairfirst.lk/travel-safe/, by dropping a message on WhatsApp – 0774 428 428 or by reaching out to the 24/7 hotline on 0112 428 428.

• Medical expenses arising from accidents and sicknesses including treatment for COVID-19 when abroad, up to $ 100,000. 
• Irrecoverable unused travel and accommodation costs and other pre-paid charges if the customer has cancelled his/her trip due to the customer/customer’s travel companions / close relatives contracting COVID-19. 
• Expenses incurred if injury, sickness, disease and/or compulsory quarantine results in the customer’s emergency evacuation – within medical limits of $ 100,000.00 (In order to fulfil an emergency evacuation, the customer needs to prove that the severity or the nature of the injury/sickness, disease and/or compulsory quarantine warrants the customer’s emergency evacuation) 
• 24-hour global assistance
• Other benefits also include Personal Accident, Baggage Loss, Baggage Delay, Trip Curtailment, Personal Liability, Loss of Passport, Trip Delay, Trip Cancellation in addition to other listed reasons of the policy (other than COVID-19) 

Commenting on this enhancement, Fairfirst Chief Technical Officer Priyantha Perera states, “As the world has evolved to live in the new normal, we as an insurer must do the same in order to support the lifestyles of customers in this new age. By being the first insurer to offer a travel experience that covers expenses arising from COVID-19 shows that our optimism has helped us evolve to offer unique and global service standards, whatever the challenge may be.”

Fairfirst Insurance Ltd., is part of the global Fairfax Group. The Group is a leading property and casualty insurer, reinsurer and investment manager, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Fairfirst is today among the top general insurance companies of Sri Lanka and is recognised as the only Sri Lankan company amongst the 2020 Top insurance global giants in Asia-Pacific. Fairfirst serves individuals, businesses and institutions across this beautiful island through a versatile workforce spread across the comprehensive branch network, affinity partners and brokers in Sri Lanka.