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A-2.4 Sea rescue costs, rescue costs and search costs, Watercraft Accident Insurance, Premium
Clause A-2.4, Sea rescue costs, rescue costs and search costs, from Watercraft Accident Insurance, Premium, AVB WSU Premium (1-2025nam).
German law applies; only the German wording is binding.
This English text is a courtesy so you can read what you buy, not a contract document.
Where the two differ, the German text decides:
A-2.4.1 Conditions for the benefit.
A-2.4.1.1 After a maritime emergency or an accident, the insured person has incurred costs for German law applies to the contract. The German wording of the conditions alone is binding; this translation is provided for understanding only. search, rescue or life saving operations by rescue services organised under public or private law, or their transport, ordered by a doctor or medically reasonable and justifiable, to the hospital, to the specialist clinic or to the nearest pressure chamber. It is equivalent to a maritime emergency or an accident where one was directly imminent or was to be presumed under the specific circumstances, even if the search was in vain. A further condition is that no third party (for example a health insurer or liability insurer) is obliged to reimburse the costs, or that the third party disputes its obligation to pay. So far as another party liable to pay compensation does not step in, the claim for reimbursement may be asserted against us if your claims against other parties liable to pay compensation are assigned to us.
A-2.4.1.2 We reimburse the additional expense of the injured person's return to their permanent residence, so far as the additional costs are due to a doctor's order or were medically reasonable and justifiable.
A-2.4.1.3 In the event of death caused by the accident, we reimburse the cost of transferring the body to the last permanent residence.
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