Reviews, Sales, and Service Ratings for
Global Alert

Submitting our claim was straightforward, and we received our reimbursement without hassle. When we talked to customer service about it, they were very helpful: they got back to us in the time frame promised and explained everything clearly. It was a very positive experience.

Still processing. I am having trouble accessing forms online

Have had several Global Alert policies. Easy to contact Customer Service. A "real person" answers the phone. Extra points for that! A little complicated to get ahold of Global Alert from overseas if you don't have an international phone. Had to email family to call for help. And they wanted to fax forms. Who has a fax anymore? Cannot call or email Claims dept. Just mail forms and wait...weeks. But they have paid claims, eventually, so I'm happy about that.

Second experience,: we had no problems either time, so
I have no idea how they'd do on a claim. No reason to
think they wouldn't be fine.

I purchased a travel policy that had no exclusions through Squaremouth. I believe the company was Global Alert Administrators with Arch Insurance as the underwriter. Unfortunately, shortly before the trip, one travel partner lost her son in a tragic accident. The entire trip was cancelled due to this death. The claim was handled by TRIP MATE this was a horrible, horrible experience. In May of 2013 we submitted ALL the information trip mate required. EVERYTHING was sent to them including death certificate, newspaper articles, flight, hotel,car rental information. Six months later we still did not get any reimbursement. We received the same request over and over and over from tripmate for the exact information they already had. Placed numerous phone calls asking for updates only to be told there was a procedure. After I finally stated I was contacting the better business bureau abut all parties..we received a check. Will never do business witrh this company again.

I submitted a claim as I had lost my passport (did have cancellation for any reason just in case of emergency for my plan). I understand if it takes time to process the claim, but never heard anything (word of rejection or anything). When later trying to check the status of the claim, my policy number no longer worked which is understandable as after the trip it may have ended. However, the confirmation I got after submitting the claim had no claim number, which is required for checking the status. Calling is very inconvenient as there is always "large number of calls." Overall, there really is no reason to purchase travel insurance if they are going to be like this as I am getting an impression it was just a scam.

Fortunately, I did not have to make a claim.

My claim #5277079 was "handled" by Trip Mate, Inc. They denied the major portion of my claim, which was for travel delay/interruption. A British Airways flight was delayed, causing me to miss my connection to South African Airways Johannesburg to Washington D.C. (Business Class). They denied the claim saying it was for "unused airfare"! It was unused because of travel delay. They told me to go try to get it from the airline, which is totally disingenuous. My $800+ premium was paid through Squaremouth and I shouldn't be told to run around trying to collect from someone else!

As most have said, customer service has been horrible. Our bags were delayed three days and we are only claiming a few replacement items that are supposed to be covered. You would think we were applying for top security clearance. We sent them items and they would request the same items a couple weeks later. We called, emailed, mailed and still after 3.5 months we are waiting to get reimbursed. I just don't get it. They still made money on our policy too. Never again with them...I hope we see some reimbursement this year.

We purchased a Global Alert Preferred policy for our September, 2013 Transatlantic cruise. During the cruise a small wound in my arm became infected and swollen and I sought treatment from the physician on the ship. I have two artificial joints so this type of infection can be very serious. I missed one prepaid non-refundable tour in the process.

When I returned home I filed a claim first with my medical plan and received some reimbursement for the medical fees. Then on November 3, I sent in my claim for the remaining medical and the tour expenses. The total claim was under $300. I enclosed two claim forms and every conceivable receipt imaginable. Since I had received
nothing but a postcard acknowledgement, I called to check the status on November 25. I spoke to Nancy who said that the claims were taking longer than the promised 5-7 business days. She said she would contact the claims department and call us the next day with the status. We heard nothing so we called again today and we're told that Nancy had tried to call us (nope, we were home all day last
Wednesday and our phone captures information on any missed calls). In any case, she had no update.

It has been almost a month since we filed and service is, shall we say, totally unacceptable. This is our first claim and we are extremely disappointed in the service and waiting not-so-patiently for our check.