Off Piste Insurance

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Contents

• Search and Rescue Costs
• Hospital Treatment of Ski and Snowboard Injuries
• Insurance for Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding?
• Comparison of Snowsports Insurance

Summary

This article seeks to answer two questions, why we need to be insured when skiing and boarding off-piste and which policy suits us best.

Why Insure?

If you have a winter sports accident the following costs may be involved:

• Search, recovery and transport to hospital, first aid
• Hospital costs including operations, medicine and other equipment (wheel chairs, crutches, etc)
• Repatriation, return of children, replacement driver
• Third party liability
• Criminal and civil proceedings
• Compensation for days missed from holiday, including lift passes, guides, ski/snowboard school etc
• Lost and broken equipment

We'll take a look at each of these points in the rest of this article.

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