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Crewsure Marine

MARINE CREW BENEFITS INSURANCE

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MARINE CREW BENEFITS INSURANCE

This insurance product has been designed in line with the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and the ITF Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Crewsure Marine is designed to meet the requirements imposed by MLC 2006 to provide ships’ crew personalised medical benefits, injury cover, death in service, sick pay, loss of baggage and repatriation. For the owner, it also provides crew replacement cover and can be extended to include unpaid wages from abandonment.

Crewsure will also provide the certification that has become a legal requirement.

Benefits Include:

  • Healthcare
  • Family Healthcare
  • Permanent Disability
  • Death in Service
  • Sick Pay
  • Baggage
  • Abandonment
  • Deviation
  • Crew Replacement

What is Covered?

  • Healthcare Cover
Crew are covered for medically necessary treatments due to accidents or illnesses under a managed healthcare plan for up to US$500,000 per person per insurance year. This limit can be amended if required. With a valid PEME then pre-existing conditions will be covered.
  • Family Health Cover

Extends protection beyond the workplace, ensuring crew members are covered while on leave and includes coverage for spouses, partners, and dependent children.

  • Permanent Disability

Cover for permanent disability from an accident, with options to include illness. As set out by the ITF CBA limits are up to US$190,000 for senior officers, US$152,000 for junior officers and US$115,000 for crew. Cover also includes crew replacement.

  • Death in Service

We provide, as set out by the ITF CBA up to US$116,000 per person, and we will also pay US$23,000 for each legally dependent child under the age of eighteen at the time of death up to a maximum of 4 children.

  • Sick Pay

Loss of wages from both accident and illness up to 12 months as set out under MLC.

  • Deviation

Deviation expenses incurred in deviating from the voyage in order to land a sick or injured crew member.

  • Crew Replacement Costs

In the event that a crew member has to be replaced due to injury or illness, we will pay expenses for recruiting and sending a replacement.

  • Baggage

Cover for lost or delayed baggage prior to departure and on return home up to US$1,000 for a single item or a maximum of US$3,300 in any twelve month period.

  • Abandonment

An insured person is covered for the cost of repatriation to their home country, and up to 4 months of unpaid wages, in the event that they and their vessel are abandoned, leaving the vessel without the necessary maintenance and support, in accordance with MLC.

We can provide different limits on request if required. Please get in touch with us for more information.

Additional Options

Protecting partners and dependents in their home country.
Crisis/Political Protection

Eligibility For Insurance

All seagoing employees of the policyholder who are suitably qualified and/or licensed crew or officers

A condition of this insurance is that the Pre-Employment Medical Examination (PEME) and the certificate of competency or other relevant qualification of an employee are current and up to date and all individual crew details are registered

Deductibles

  • US$250 per medical expenses claim or minimum 10% Co-pay
  • No deductible applies for Personal Accident or Death in Service
  • US$50 per claim in relation to Baggage
  • No deductible applies for Abandonment but there is a 21 day waiting period

Key Exclusions

Criminal offences; suicide; willful misconduct; piracy; war; chemical or nuclear force or contamination

For more information on this or any of our other products, please contact us or get a quote.

Our office

Room 821, Lloyd’s of London 1986 Building, One Lime Street,
London, EC3M 7DQ. United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 20 7046 0866
E enquiries@crewsure.com

More Info

Crewsure Insurance Services Limited registered office at 2 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1EF and trades from Room 821 Lloyd’s of London 1986 Building, One Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.  Registered in England No. 09325907.  Crewsure Insurance Services Limited is an Appointed Representative (FRN 660885) of ES Risks Limited who are authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Reference 565023.  Crewsure is a member of the Managing General Agents’ Association. Calls may be monitored or recorded for regulatory and security purposes.  For European business, Crewsure Insurance Services (Europe) is a trading name of ES Risks Europe EPE whose registered office is at Hasioti Street 13, 151 23 Maroussi Attiki, Athens, Greece. GEMH company registration number: 152459303000. ES Risks Europe EPE is authorised by the Bank of Greece, Special Registry number 326 and in the UK is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under Firm Reference 973279.

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