Accidental Death And Dismemberment (Common Carrier)

(Including Loss of Sight or Hearing)

We will pay a percentage of the Principal Sum shown in the Policy Schedule or the Schedule of Benefits (refer to 'Schedule of Benefits' of this Policy) if Injury to You under the circumstances described in the Hazard(H-6) during an Insured Journey while this Policy is in effect results in one of the losses shown in the Table of Losses below. Injury must occur while You are riding as a passenger in or on, boarding or alighting from, a Common Carrier. The loss must occur within 365 Days, from the date of the Accident which caused Injury.

If more than one loss results from any one Accident, only one amount, the largest, will be paid.

Table of losses

Loss of: % of Principal Sum
Life 100%
Both Hands or Both Feet 100%
Sight of Both Eyes 100%
One Hand and One Foot 100%
Either Hand or Foot and Sight of One Eye 100%
Speech and Hearing in Both Ears 100%
Either Hand or Foot 50%
Sight of One Eye 50%
Speech 50%
Hearing in Both Ears 50%
Thumb and Index Finger of Same Hand 25%

"Loss" with regard to:

  • hand or foot means actual severance through or above the wrist or ankle joints;
  • eye means entire and irrecoverable loss of sight;
  • thumb and index finger means actual severance through or above the joint that meets the hand at the palm;
  • speech or hearing means entire and irrecoverable loss of speech or hearing of both ears

Limitation
With regard to the Accidental Death of a named Insured Person Age seventeen (17) or below, the maximum Principal Sum payable is 10% of the principal sum insured.

Exposure
For the purposes of the Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits above, a loss resulting from You being unavoidably exposed to the elements due to an Accident occurring while You are riding as a passenger in or on, boarding or alighting from, a Common Carrier during the Trip, will be payable as if resulting from an Injury. Loss must occur within 365 Days of the date of the Accident.

Disappearance
We will pay the benefit for Loss of Life while on Trip if Your body cannot be located within 365 Days after the forced landing, stranding, sinking or wrecking of a conveyance in which You were a passenger or as a result of any Acts of God, in which case it shall be deemed, subject to all other terms and provisions of the Policy, that You shall have suffered loss of life within the meaning of the Policy.

Exclusions:
In addition the General Exclusions listed in this Policy this coverage section shall not cover:

  1. loss caused directly or indirectly, wholly or partly by:
    • infections (except pyogenic infections which shall occur through an Accidental cut or wound) or any other kind of Disease;
    • medical or surgical treatment except as may be necessary solely as a result of Injury;
  2. any Injury which shall result in hernia