Travel Insurance Reviews for Nationwide

Although I received everything for that my claim covered, it was a slow process.

We've purchased Nationwide Essentials policies for about five trips. Our most recent was the first for which we had to cancel the trip and make a claim. It turned out that we over-insured, because the pre-existing condition waiver, which we wanted, requires all non-refundable prepayments to be insured, and I wasn't aware that our airfare bought through the cruise line, plus the prepaid specialty dinners and excursions, were refundable from the cruise line. So our claim was only for about 50% of our insured amount. I made sure to provide the claim dept with all the details requested. They never responded by email after I submitted the claim, but instead just mailed a check for the claimed amount, so that was a nice "surprise" when it arrived. My only complaint was one claims dept phone rep; I called two days after emailing in all the documentation, because I wanted to make sure they received everything I sent, and that they could read the documents. The rep was not helpful, and just kept telling me they had 15 days to respond to my claim. He also first told me they hadn't received my claim form, which turned out not to be true. After quite a round-about discussion, he finally looked at some of the documents (he didn't seem to want to be bothered to check them all for me), and the one that I sent as Word doc instead of a PDF was unreadable, so I re-sent it as a PDF. This unhelpful rep was an unusual experience, because I spoke to several other folks in the claims department before I filed the claim, and they were able to answer my questions for me. If I needed to, I would have called back to get a better rep to help me. Also the InsureMyTrip chat staff has always be extremely helpful and knowledgeable, both during my insurance purchases, and when I had questions about my claim.

We used the emergency medical assistance service. The customer service rep was very helpful, but the case manager in the foreign country failed to response to theirs/our request. So despite the state side support, we were unable to obtain a referral for the medical care we needed.

I am the type never to buy travel insurance. However, as this trip was more on the expensive side, i decided to insure it as i had elderly in laws coming along. I went with Nationwide as they are a big reputable insurance company and covered what i would need.

I am so glad i did buy insurance as one of my in laws suffered a stroke prior to the trip and had to make a claim. I tried calling and did get a hold of a representative who told me to file my claim online or mailing it in. I did my claim via the online portal. Uploaded what documents they needed and claimed was processed. Be forewarned though is communication is extremely scant. All you will receive is acknowledgement that your claim was received. A few weeks later i got checks for the amount i was claiming. Overall, satisfied but communication is extremely lacking. Document everything!!!

Submitted a claim for Morocco and cancelling the trip due to the earthquake. The policy seemed pretty straight forward; however, when I filed the claim, they asked for more detailed documentation. Some things, like the airfare with cost, dates and name I did provide, I do not know what more documentation they wished. Luckily, the travel group I went with refunded the trip. I was not aware I bought a refunded airline ticket so that ended up not being a problem. I was only out train fare, so I did not pursue further through the insurance company. The policy appeared more complicated and not as easy as I had hoped. But again, I did not finish the process but feel they just ask for more information knowing, statistically, people will not follow up/through.

For medical reasons we needed to cancel our trip. After submitting required paper work a full refund was issued within three weeks

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Returned from my trip a day early due to a sickness on Friday...did not see a Dr in Aruba. Returned on Friday evening. Called Nationwide yesterday Monday first day they were open and was told would not be covered because I have not seen a Dr yet

My plane was delayed by weather and I missed a part of my tour in Nashville. I was disappointed that the insurance did not cover the tour that I missed that was not my fault.

The only reason Nationwide paid up is because an advocate from insuremytrip.com contacted them after they denied my claim. Nationwide asked me for more and more details and I kept sending them what they asked for but they kept asking for the same things over and over again. When you call Nationwide, you cannot speak with anyone who who is familiar with your claim. You can only talk to someone who tells you that the adjuster needs more time and more info but they cannot provide you with any specifics. My case was as simple as possible (trip payment and airfare) yet Nationwide managed to make it an extremely complicated with multiple proofs of payment, proofs of no refunds made, proofs of trip itinerary with exact dates, etc. The person I talked to at cbconnect said that is because there is so much fraud in the travel insurance business. I believe it is because they try to wear you down so you just give up.

This plan worked out great for us. Due to an illness in our family we were unable to take our trip. We had to provide bank or credit card statements for all expenses and once we did the claim was processed in a matter of days. The checks were mailed out promptly but the USPS took almost 2 weeks to deliver. We would have lost over $17000 without this insurance. Customer service (Flo) was very helpful answering questions we had.