First 3 days Travel Insurance free for SDM Optimum Members

3-Day Travel Insurance
As a Shoppers Optimum™ Member, you, your spouse and your dependent children travelling with you get complimentary insurance coverage provided by Desjardins Financial Security for the first three days of any trip of 3 days or less taken outside your province of residence.

3-Day Travel Insurance covers:

* Emergency Health Care
* Accident
* Trip Cancellation
* Baggage

You also benefit from a 24-hour telephone Travel Assistance Service, wherever you are and for the duration of your trip. See the Insurance Policy (PDF format, 557 KB). It contains all travel insurance conditions and exclusions. Read closely the section regarding the restrictions, exclusions and limitations for pre-existing illnesses and injuries. If your trip lasts more than three days, you must extend your coverage for the entire duration of your trip for the complimentary offer to apply.

Leaving for more that three days?
Have your Travel Insurance coverage extended* and only pay an insurance premium for the additional days of coverage for the entire duration of your trip. In addition, a minimum premium to cover administrative expenses must be paid whenever coverage is extended.

* Online
Fill out the form (if you are age 54 or under)
NOTE: Members age 55 or over must answer an insurability questionnaire. Therefore, they can only extend their coverage by phone.
* By phone
Call 1-866-735-7337, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

*Certain conditions and restrictions apply.

http://www.shoppersdrugmart.ca/engli...ins/index.html

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this is still good

im going to look into this for my 3 days trip to vegas this fall.

too bad, I missed this post. I was at SDM earlier.

this should be stickied. After having watched "Sicko" for the umpteenth time, I think so many Canadians would benefit from this coverage.

FYI, this program has been discontinued as of Jan 31, 2009. There was a link to the webpage but that has since been removed.

On the subject of travel insurance, be very careful and read the stability period clause! If you have had a change of medication (increase or decrease or new medication) for say, blood pressure, within the stability period, they won`t pay if you have a stroke or heart attack. In some policies the stability period is quite long so be careful!