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The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, more commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act (hereafter known as the "Act"), encourages production of generic bioequivalents to increase domestic healthcare access, while maintaining economic incentives for innovators to advance healthcare. The Act also provides a 30-month stay, a safe harbor period for brand manufacturers to unreservedly pursue patent litigation against generics that file an Abbreviated New Drug Application ("ANDA") certified by Paragraph IV ("ANDA PIV" or Paragraph IV), as well as an 180-day exclusivity period for non-incumbent investors that are first to file ("FTF") an ANDA PIV.
However, an unintended consequence of the Act has been the surge, since the mid-2000s, of Paragraph IV filings such that it is emerging as the de facto standard. The extensive usage of Paragraph IV filings has increased business and legal costs, while driving down market exclusivity periods ("MEPs") for brand and generics (we substitute the 180-day exclusivity jargon with its fundament definition of MEP), with unsympathetic market- and price-erosion rates post-loss of exclusivity ("LOE"). Ultimately, the decrease in financial returns have lowered the incentive to innovate, while forcing the hands of non-incumbent investors, in that they are more compelled to file ANDAs on the basis of strategic opportunity, as opposed to patent validity.
Regardless of whether you are an innovator, nonincumbent bioequivalent, or both, the key to financial success is directly correlated to origination and maintenance of MEP and mitigation of LOE erosion. LOE is convincingly dictated by the tolerance of risk, strategic timing, and premeditated partnerships, as well as increasingly complex calculus of tactical intellectual property exercises. Although these variables have created a unparalleled platform of non-synergistic financial and operational transactions industry participants can rest assured that innovative solutions exist to the this dynamic and ever-changing arena.
Industry challenges and economic trends
Declining MEPs and post-LOE erosion correlated to Paragraph IV pressures have altered the competitive environment of the life sciences industry. For brand manufacturers, patent protection no longer defines MEPs or LOE for their innovative products. Notwithstanding its waning probability of emerging victorious in patent litigation, a brand's MEP is defined by minimum standards of market protection or data exclusivity, the utility of the 30-month stay, any settlement terms, and generic FDA approval rates. Conversely, generics manufacturers face unfavorable market metrics, including the emerging extinction of sole 180-day MEPs and diminishing market share and price-realization rates, especially post-LOE.
These challenges have forced all manufacturers to rethink competitive strategies and tactics, leading to new trends in the industry.
These industry trends include:
- The forced hand. A trend of non-synergistic or seemingly contrived financial transactions have taken place in the market. While mergers and acquisitions, as well as licensing deals, may offer a short term financial lift, they may lack the commercial momentum and fortitude to drive long-term value in this economic-competitive climate.
- Suffocating markets. Generics manufacturers are enduring extensive competition from various established and new entrants who wish to leverage the current ANDA PIV standards and asymmetrical risk that is clearly present in potential patent litigation, resulting in intense price and market share erosion, as well as shared FTF positions.
- Patent marathons. There has been an increase in patents per small molecule product, rationalized as distinguishing from the obvious, prior art, and the need for freedom to operate. Regardless of the underlying calculus, the overall filings have increased substantially, which affects genuine innovative patent pursuits.
- Anxious advocates. Although a 30-month stay should subdue market unrest, due to the exponential increase in PIV filings and at-risk launch possibilities, the courts have become inundated with patent disputes and indirect stakeholders have become eccentrically focused on price-fluctuation.
- Punishing reconciliation. The asymmetric risk within Paragraph-IV derived patent litigation has created a trend to settle IP disputes at the 11th hour. These settlements have come under great scrutiny from federal and state regulatory bodies, as well as consumers.
- Extending exclusivity. Manufacturers are heading towards uncharacteristic innovation that allows for extended MEP and mitigation of share- and price-erosion, as well as opportunities that are outside of the Act's reach.
Our solution
Deloitte life sciences professionals are, first and foremost, receptive and understand your unique or cyclical needs, and work in a proactive, as opposed to reactive manner, to assess the risk and reward equation to every decision you face. We integrate industry experience, strategic insights, economic and financial expertise, and marry that with litigation knowledge to deliver innovative, best-in-class services to help multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to respond quickly to ever-changing and fragile competitive situations and economic concerns.
Our industry professionals speak the languages of commercial life sciences participants, whether it be business development directors, financial officers, or legal practitioners, thus bridging the gap and allowing us to deliver seamless solutions across all related stakeholders.
Regardless of your innovative or non-incumbent intent, we work with you to proactively:
- Originate and Maximize Exclusivity
- Maximize Pre- and Post-Exclusivity Revenue
- Evaluate Risk and Financial Thresholds
- Identify Economic-Competitive Outcomes
- Increase Overall Life-Cycle Proficiency
We offer further details below and explain the rationale for engaging our services.
Deloitte difference
Strategy development
In the current, challenging Paragraph IV-influenced life sciences environment, an overall portfolio development and optimization strategy that accounts for the short- and long-term economic trade-offs of your financial decisions is vital. A key component of a well-developed product strategy is the understanding of the full potential of your resources and applying financial, economic, and legal lenses when evaluating all commercial decisions.
Our experts, with varied academic and professional backgrounds, coordinate with manufacturing, commercial, business development, financial, and legal stakeholders to help identify and bridge any fissures that have created barriers to success in the past. We effectively leverage and create efficiency in your resources by assisting in developing and delivering successful, executive-level business cases that proactively advance your overall portfolio strategy in a timely manner.
Economic modeling and forecasting
Deloitte provides seasoned industry and technical specialists who can perform economic modeling and forecasting throughout all stages of lifecycle management to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems. Whether working with brand or generics firms, our skilled practitioners and data driven, granular analyses can help identify your options, understand their economic trade-offs, and arrive at more informed decisions.
Our services include:
- Today's and tomorrow's market. We help you assess the speculative value of existing product portfolio and current footprint in today's market landscape, while identifying gaps that may suggest future opportunities to conquer tomorrow's market landscape.
We identify both organic and inorganic methods of growth as it relates to your revenue goals and debate the trade-offs. We understand the need to efficiently balance the number of dealings required to reach revenue goals to avoid unnecessary transaction premiums. - Light at the end of the pipeline. Our team can assist in the earliest stages of product development, during clinical trials or preliminary ANDA selections, to help assess your pipeline's value. We evaluate regulatory challenges, measure a proposed product's market potential, and construct legal and economic scenarios to quantify the impact on your current and future product portfolio as it relates to today's and tomorrow's market landscape.
- Evaluation of revenue. Our team can help determine a currently commercialized or pipeline product's market value by evaluating LOE outcome, price elasticity, market share allocations, and cost metrics, such as supply chain considerations. We go beyond archetypal evaluations by applying granular consumer demand studies — taking into account epidemiological prevalence and incidence influences, policy concerns, the risk of innovation superseding demand, and other relevant factors that may affect your desired financial outcomes.
- Balancing exclusivity and eviction. Our professionals are equipped with an arsenal of economic, financial, and legal experience. We provide the power of empirical data and analyses, mirrored with subjective intellectual property evaluations, to understand your specific LOE concerns and provide related risk-adjusted economic and competitive outcomes.
- Reevaluate the wheel. Whether your challenges stem from emergent issues or are a reaction to forced hands, we are able to assist in the development of more calculated decisions and probability of economic outcomes utilizing high-throughput analytics and applied data mining. We have applied our unique analyses to reinvigorate everything from synchronizing portfolio management and supply chain efforts to minimize carrying costs to the reduction of economic surplus in patent litigation settlements.
Dispute and litigation consulting
Life sciences companies face increasingly complex litigation, disputes and regulatory scrutiny. To prevail in this environment requires the talents and capabilities of experienced professionals who can help you resolve existing disputes, as well as help you proactively avoid future litigation, disputes, and regulatory scrutiny. Our experts can help provide clarity to legal advisors by assessing risk and damages exposure and performing financial and economic analyses to evaluate and quantify the comparative trade-offs of different dispute resolution strategies.
Our professionals can provide:
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- Litigation life-cycle valuations. Our experts can evaluate economic impacts across all stages of litigation, dispute, and regulatory scrutiny. We apply our proprietary models and tools to compute probabilities under different litigation and settlement scenarios, while also applying proactive measures and remedies to avoid and manage potential regulatory scrutiny, respectively.
- Grounding the ivory tower. Our professionals are experienced in delivering expert testimony during all stages of the litigation life-cycle, while concurrently working in the daily grind of solving consulting conundrums. We can communicate complex technical concepts such as IP and consumer valuations and the economic rationality of settlements, so that our testimony is understood by all ranges of audience.
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Can somebody please explain?
Can somebody please explain?
I have lived in japan for 20 years. I have a successful business there, and work hard to keep it successful.
For the past 15 years i have spent anywhere from a few weeks to a few months in thailand - recently i have been spending atleast a few months per year as i find the tokyo summers unbearable, and the middle of winter is also too cold for me.
for 15 years i have been coming here to spend money. i play golf, i visit the islands and go diving, and i enjoy the food on offer.
Yestreday, i came to thailand for the third time this year. i stayed a month the first time and a few weeks the next. Yesterday i was told by a very rude woman at the airport who seemed to have made up her mind that she didn't like me the moment i walked up to her counter (what is wrong with these people??). She then very coldly told me that I can only staty 15 days, and cannot return for 3 months.
Now this is just insane. I work in japan, and relax in thailand - that's what i have done for almost 2 decades. My japanese wife also loves it here, and travels with me most of the time - though she rarely has time to stay as long as me - but now i have been told i am not allowed back - by a rude woman with a horrible attitude.
I. have visited cambodia, burma, and loas, and think they are nice countries, but the lack of infistucture has always put me off a little - but not now.
I have a friend will a villa on the beach in Cambodia, and will be booking my futre trips there.
If i am not good enough for you thailand, then goodbye - your new visa policies have given me as bitter tastre in my mouth that i don't think will go away soon..
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RE: Can somebody please explain?
I fully agree with you. There needs to be exeptions. If you have the money and have no desire to illegally work, you should be allowed to stay all year round. There needs to be a visitors visa, which is valid for 1 year. The criteria could be sufficient funds in your account and maybe even a short stint of charity work during that year, to keep your visa valid. This way you are putting into the community, not just financially. It's just a thought, but for the genuine people like yourself, your not getting a fair go.
RE: RE: Can somebody please explain?
They have decided that they no longer require us farang, to sustain their economy (they have a stock exchange now didn't you know).
and we are a smelly troublesome lot after all, coming here defiling their women and causing havoc on the roads.
So I say come here for your 3 weeks holiday, drink yourself stupid, defile as many bar-girls as you can and then key Thailands shiney new car on the way out.!
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RE: RE: Can somebody please explain?
Thai airport officials are professionals and most hospitable.
Your rude words and foul language will not pardon you of abiding by the Thai law. So vulgar of you to defame an official doing her work. I'm wondering why the 20 years in Japan were futile to enhance your primitive hostile nature. If you can't adjust or adhere to Thai laws, Take your money and bye bye honey.
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RE: RE: Can somebody please explain?
You seem to be very anti foreign.
According to the Thai Embassy website,
I quote, "Nationals of the following countries may enter Thailand without a visa in accordance with Ministry of Interior's regulation for a maximum stay of 30 days for purpose of Tourism only:-
Japan is listed as one of the countries where nationals may enter without a visa for 30 days.
However Thailand has changed the visa rules recently to prevent people from running to the border every thirty days to renew their visa. I totally agree with this policy as it appears to be an attempt to keep out those who circumvent the normal visa process.
But Mark is not one of those people. He does not live in Thailand nor does he make border runs every 30 days. A quick look at his entry exit record would have confirmed that. So his complaint is valid. He has broken no laws.
You said, "Your rude words and foul language will not pardon you of abiding by the Thai law."
You should reread Mark's post again. I see nothing in it that indicated he was rude and used foul language.
It is you, Chaokoh, who needs to look at yourself and ask the hard question, "Am I a good example of Thai people? Do I practice the words of the beloved //////?
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RE: RE: Can somebody please explain?
Rooster may wish you to be here, but you are not welcome.
RE: RE: Can somebody please explain?
Is there a point your trying to make? You mentioned in your previous post that you couldn't agree more. I am guessing your Thai with very bad english skills.
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- A physician certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation is often call a physiatrist. The primary goal of the physiatrist is to achieve maximal restoration of physical, psychological, social and vocational function through comprehensive rehabilitation. Pain management is often an important part of the role of the physiatrist. For diagnosis and evaluation, a physiatrist may include the techniques of electromyography to supplement the standard history, physical, X-ray, and laboratory examinations. The physiatrist has expertise in the appropriate use of therapeutic exercise, prosthetics (artificial limbs), orthotics, and mechanical and electrical devices.
- A physician who provides a high level of care, either as a primary physician or consultant, for patients experiencing problems with acute, chronic or cancer pain in both hospital and ambulatory settings.
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
- A physiatrist who utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and addresses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of congenital and childhood onset physical impairments including related or secondary medical, physical, functional, psychosocial, and vocational limitations or conditions, with an understanding of the life course of disability. This physician is trained in the identification of functional capabilities and selection of the best of rehabilitation intervention strategies, with an understanding of the continuum of care.
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- A physician who addresses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of traumatic spinal cord injury and non-traumatic etiologies of spinal cord dysfunction by working in an interdisciplinary manner. Care is provided to patients of all ages on a lifelong basis and covers related medical, physical, psychological and vocational disabilities and complications.


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Colossal Volcano Eruption Sends Ash Plume Two Miles High in Philippines
(Russia Today: February 21, 2011) The eruption of Mount Bulusan in the province of Sorsogon in the Philippines sent clouds of ash almost two miles high and forced thousands of people to flee. Bulusan's last major eruption was in 2006.
Ousted Tunisian President 'Stashed' Cash
(Euronews: February 20, 2011) Tunisia's former president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, stashed cash, gold, diamonds, and other precious items in secret spots in his palace in Tunis, according to state television. He was overthrown last month after 23 years of authoritarian rule.
Mexico Villagers Establish Local Police
(Al Jazeera English: February 19, 2011) Villagers in the highlands of Jolochitan in Guerrero, Mexico have established a DIY system for local policing that is proving effective. The southwestern state of Guerrero has long fought a battle with guerrilla fighters.
Tiger Escapes at Tokyo Zoo
(ITN News: February 22, 2011) Zookeeper Shuuhei Yamaguchi donned a tiger costume to help fellow Tokyo Zoo staff practice a tiger escape emergency drill. It took the staff an hour to recapture him.


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It is with great sadness that I write this post. We lost a beloved family member last Friday. Just last week I introduced you to the furry members of our family, and it breaks my heart to tell you that Cosmo is no longer with us.
Friday was my off day, so Brian got up first like he usually does on my Fridays off. When he woke me up so that I could get up and get the kids ready he said "Cosmo isn't feeling good today. He won't even get up." I went out to the family room to check on him and he wouldn't even pick his head up. He didn't want to eat his breakfast, so I thought maybe his stomach was upset. When I was making breakfast for the kids and opened the peanut butter (they eat peanut butter on their waffles), he didn't come running out to the kitchen like he normally does. That is when I knew something was really wrong.
We got the kids off to school and decided that Cosmo needed to go to the vet. Since I had just gotten up and was still in my pajamas, Brian was going to take him. He put his leash on him and told him to come on, and Cosmo didn't move. He tried to help him to stand up and he couldn't even stand on his feet. His back feet just kept buckling under him. So the two of us carried him out to the truck (he was 80 pounds) and they left for the vet. I thought he was having a stroke the way he couldn't get up. I jumped in the shower, because I figured I would need to meet them there.
Shortly after I got out of the shower I got a text from Brian that said "Prognosis isn't good." I jumped into the car and drove to the vet as fast as I could. When I got there, Cosmo was laying on a blanket in one of the rooms. They had taken xrays and found that he had a tumor on his spleen that ruptured and he was bleeding internally. He had lost a lot of blood and was very weak. The vet painted a very grim picture. He said that it is very common for golden retrievers to get a cancer called hemangiosarcoma and he thought that is what it probably was. They could do surgery to remove his spleen in order to get the bleeding stopped, but if it was hemangiosarcoma it would spread and within three months would probably be in his lungs. However, if it wasn't cancer and was just a benign tumor, he would be fine and could live another few years, barring any other issues. He didn't say it in so many words, but he basically recommended that we put him to sleep.
I couldn't do it. I could not put Cosmo to sleep not knowing for sure that it was that kind of cancer. The vet even said they didn't see it spreading on the xrays they took, so there was a possibility it was just a benign tumor. I felt like we owed it to Cosmo to try to save him, and wanted to do whatever we could for him. He was healthy. He played frisbee every day, and never had any health issues. He had just played frisbee the night before and was running around like normal. There was a possibility that he would be OK, and I held onto hope that he would.
We agreed to the surgery and signed the consent forms. I told Cosmo that I loved him and to be strong and pull through. They had been pulling him around on a big blanket and when the tech started pulling him out of the room he looked at us and wagged his tail. The vet said they had to get some fluids in him and stabilize him before they could do the surgery, so they probably wouldn't be done until 3:00 or so.
At 1:30 my phone rang. When I saw the vet come up on the caller ID my heart sank. I knew it was too early for him to be calling me. He said that the surgery went well. There were a lot of tumors on his spleen and even some on his liver, but they removed the spleen and stopped the bleeding. As they were closing him up, Cosmo went into cardiac arrest and they couldn't get his heart started back up. He didn't make it.
My heart is broken. Cosmo was a trusted companion and a loyal friend. He was a member of our family. He was a gentle giant. For the last 9 1/2 years he has been by my side.
I wish I could say that I love all of my pets the same, but I loved Cosmo just a little bit more. There was just something about him. There was that special something in his eyes. I feel like I lost one of my best friends.
I feel guilty. I'm overwhelmed with guilt that I let my dogs take a backseat to my kids. There were so many nights that we came home and Cosmo was so happy to see us, but I just walked right past him because I had my hands full and had two hungry, cranky kids to deal with. There were many days last summer when he sat by the sliding glass doors longing to come swimming with us, and we didn't let him because it was too much to deal with since the kids were in the pool too. But he didn't hold a grudge. He was still overjoyed to see me every time I walked through the door. I patted his head every night and told him how much I loved him. Was that enough? Probably not. But I hope he knew how much he was loved.
He didn't suffer. That is the only good part of this tragic story. The vet said he wasn't in any pain when we brought him in. He was asleep when he went in to surgery and never knew what happened. I feel good about my decision to try to help him, and I'm glad that I didn't agree to have him put to sleep. We did everything we could to try and save him. My last memory of him was of him wagging his tail, and that is what I want to hold on to.
Brian did some research over the weekend and found that over 65% of golden retrievers die from cancer. Unfortunately Chloe is also a golden retriever, and even worse, she shares his DNA. I have to somehow put that out of my mind and not constantly worry about the same thing happening to her. I can tell that she misses her brother. She has been just laying around for most of the weekend, and she acts like she doesn't know what to do. Cosmo was definitely the leader of the pack.
Even though this post is so ridiculously long, I cannot even put into words how sad I am right now. A piece of my heart died along with Cosmo. I loved him so very much, and I will miss him terribly.


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With Adolf Hitler's WWII Bavarian mountain retreat set to undergo a multi-million dollar makeover, travel to the onetime lairs and luxury retreats of tyrants is in the spotlight.
Many monuments built by megalomaniacs are open to the public.
From Tito's nuclear bunker to Stalin's summer house to Mussolini's villa, autocrat hideouts have become tourist attractions.
Does visiting places associated with ruthless dictatorships serve as a useful history lesson? Or is it a disservice to the memories of those who suffered under brutal regimes?
It can be uncomfortable posing for pictures at places where the darkest events of the Third Reich were carried out. Yet the preservation of such sites also serves as an important reminder of historic atrocities.
All of these places are easy enough to get to. Whether you actually want to go is another question ...
Adolf Hitler: Eagle's Nest, Bavaria
This mountain retreat near the town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps was originally a place where Hitler could receive visiting dignitaries.
The chalet is reached via a 124-meter elevator drilled into the mountain.
On the same mountain, a backup Nazi command base -- the Berghof -- was destroyed by Allied bombing.
The Eagle's Nest (Kehlsteinhaus, in German), however, is still open as a restaurant and information center -- and a $22.5 million upgrade has recently been announced.
Visitors reach the house by ascending through the mountain in Hitler's brass elevator car
Kehlsteinhaus (+49 8652 2029; €21.50/$28 per person). The official website has directions for reaching Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest by car and bus.
Josef Stalin's Dacha, Sochi, Russia
On the outskirts of the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi -- host of the 2014 Winter Olympics -- sits Joe Stalin's summer residence.
Purpose built, complete with palm trees imported from California and sniper emplacements, this was Stalin's favorite escape from Moscow.
It's now a small and somewhat uncomfortable museum, where a waxwork of the mass-murdering Soviet leader can be found sitting at his old desk.
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Benito Mussolini: Villa Torlonia, Rome
The neo-classical Villa Torlonia was Benito Mussolini's residence between 1925 and 1943.
The Italian dictator installed a tennis court and hosted movie screenings here.
Now home to a cluster of museums, the Documentation section in the basement shows films from the villa's time under Mussolini.
Elsewhere, it's sculpture, stained glass and city archives with barely a mention of Il Duce's home comforts.
Villa Torlonia Museum, Via Nomentana 70, Rome; Tuesday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; tickets from €8 ($10.50)


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Cute? Yes. Cuddly? Yes. A little bizarre and screwy looking? Yes.
That's how I describe these stuffed animals from Donna Wilson, the collection being called simply "Donna Wilson Creatures." And 'creatures' is really the only way to describe this eclectic mix of plush creations which includes a snail named Stick, a dog named Oscar, and several mystery creatures named things like Stripey Head, Peeping Tom, and Angry Ginger. They look hand-drawn and unique, which I love, but most of them also have eyes that sit way too far apart, which I don't like (makes them look like they're missing a chromosome or something). Prices range from $84 to $164 each.


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Inside Lambeau dissect the last game, previews the upcoming game, and interviews one of your favorite Packers players each week. This week's guest: Safety M.D. Jennings.
Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy will take part in the pre-gameday excitement by greeting fans and participating in a Q-and-A session with Wayne Larrivee, the radio voice of the Packers. Packers alumni Donny Anderson and Greg Koch will also be at the rally to socialize with fans, sign autographs and discuss their thoughts on the next day's game against the Cowboys. A round-table discussion with Packers.com writers Vic Ketchman, Mike Spofford and the audience will conclude the event.


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A2) Who do I contact to make a claim?
A3) Who do I contact in the event of an emergency abroad?
B) Medical FAQ's
B1) Will the insurance still be valid if I enter No on the travel eligibility page, should I not wish to have my pre-existing medical condition covered?
B2) If I have a pre-existing medical condition, can I travel abroad?
B3) What happens if I have to go to hospital, just for the day?
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C3) What should I do if an item of my personal belongings is lost, stolen or damaged whilst I am abroad?
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D5) How many people can be covered on one policy?
D6) Do we cover One-way trips?
D7) Do I have to notify you every time I travel on an annual multi trip policy?
D8) Am I covered if any of the suppliers I purchased my holiday through go bust?
D9) Am I covered in the unlikely event of a terrorist attack?
D10) Am I insured for working abroad?
E) Definitions FAQ's
E1) Do you class Uncles and Aunts as close relatives?
E2) Can my children travel independently on our family annual multi trip policy?
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F2) Am I covered for Paragliding?
F3) What is the definition of Off-Piste skiing?
F4) Am I covered for Camel trekking?
F5) Am I covered for Catamaran sailing?
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G2) What insurance documents should I take on holiday with me?
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The emergency assistance service provided for you by this insurance is operated by One Assist Ltd and Healthwatch S.A. In the event of any illness, injury, accident or hospitalisation which requires:
Inpatient treatment anywhere in the world, you must contact:
One Assist Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 208 865 3211 Fax: +44 (0) 1992 708721 Email: email@example.com
Outpatient treatment anywhere in the world excluding North America and the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland, you must contact:
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Yes, by confirming NO on the eligibility page regarding pre-existing medical conditions, this acknowledges that you taking responsibility in respect of your pre-existing medical conditions. All medical requirements which are not related to the pre-existing condition will be covered in accordance with our terms and conditions.
Yes, you can answer a series of medical screening questions should you wish to cover certain pre-existing medical conditions. We can cover a vast number of pre-existing medical conditions.
For Outpatient treatment please refer to your policy terms and conditions .
The EHIC or European Health Insurance Card is the replacement to the old E111. We ask that all travellers travelling to a European destination make sure that they have applied for and hold a valid EHIC. Using the EHIC might save you from having to pay a policy excess. For more information or to apply, please go to www.dh.gov.uk/travellers
You must seek advice from your doctors before deciding to travel as to whether you should receive inoculations or vaccinations prior to travel. Failure to do so would mean that your policy would exclude any claim arising as a result of, or relating to something you should have been vaccinated against.
Only to the maximum valuable item limit, as specified (we recommend that you contact your household contents insurer in order to get valuable items cover added to your household contents policy).
The policy will not cover you to replace either your own or hired skis. It does however cover the cost of hiring replacement skis if the skis that you own are lost, delayed or damaged so that you may continue with your holiday. Certain restrictions apply, please check Section L of your policy wording as certain levels of cover will only apply.
You should report the theft, loss or damage to the local police, airline or relevant authority remembering to get a written report confirming this. If your claim related to a damaged item you must remember to bring it home with you as the insurers may wish to inspect the item. Please see Section F of your policy wording for full details.
No - You must buy your travel insurance before you leave the United Kingdom.
This policy is only available to you if you are permanently resident in the United Kingdom and have registered with a medical practitioner in the United Kingdom.
Under most sections of your policy you will be expected to pay the first part of a claim (the excess). This ranges from £100 to £250, please check the individual sections of your policy for more information.
Unfortunately we do not offer an Excess Waiver.
Up to 7 people can be covered on an individual policy. Family policies are restricted to 2 adults (husband and wife or partners) and up to 4 dependent children or infants. Couple policies are restricted to a maximum of 2 people.
Cover for One way trips is provided from the time of leaving the United Kingdom to the expiry of the policy or in any event no later than 72 hours after you leave immigration control of your final destination.
No, all we ask is that you make sure that you are aware of, and stick to the maximum single trip duration permitted by your policy. If you exceed the maximum single trip duration, you will not be covered for any part of that trip.
No - unfortunately, the financial failure of any supplier is not covered under our insurance. Please refer to the policy wording for more details or check our website for more details on Holiday Protection.
No. The insurer is not responsible for claims which are directly or indirectly caused by, occasioned by, resulting from or in connection with any act of terrorism.
For the purpose of this insurance, an act of terrorism is defined as - An act, including but not limited to the use / or planned use of force or violence and / or the threat of any person or group of persons whether acting alone, or on behalf of, or in connection with any organisation, or government, committed for political, religious, ideological or similar purposes including the intention to influence any government and/ or the public, or to put any section of the public in fear.
Yes, as long as it's not manual work. Manual work can be defined as work involving the use of any machinery, work higher than ground level or hazardous occupation.
No - we only cover Brother, brother-in-law, common law partner, daughter, daughter-in-law, fiancé(e), grandchild, legal guardian, parent, parent-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, son, son-in-law, or spouse who live in the UK.
No, only the named insured adults may travel independently on a family policy.
Yes, we provide cover for people to scuba dive up to a maximum depth of 15 meters. This is subject to you holding an internationally recognised qualification to do so, or you being supervised by a qualified instructor. We only cover leisure scuba diving. Any scuba diving that relates to your employment or profession would not be covered. We also do not cover any scuba diving or marine equipment.
Please note: The sporting activities listing within our policy wording, are only covered when participating on an amateur and recreational basis. Racing or any competitive event of a professional nature are excluded from our cover.
There is no cover available for Paragliding if it is the main purpose of the trip. Cover is only available if the activity is undertaken on 'an occasional and incidental basis' and where an additional premium has been paid.
The insured is fully covered to ski off piste in a ski resort with or without a guide, on their own or with others anywhere that the resort management would consider the normal off-piste ski area within a resort's ski boundaries. i.e. the off-piste between marked pistes, off to the sides of pistes and off-piste areas which can be accessed from the ski lift network and this cover is only applicable when it is considered safe and is not skiing against local recommendations or warnings.
Cover is only available if you have paid the additional premium prior to travel and cover is confirmed on your Insurance Certificate.
No cover for catamaran sailing outside coastal waters - this is normally deemed as 12 miles from shore but may differ according to region. Therefore, catamaran sailing from one country to another would not be covered.
There is no cover available for Kite Surfing if it is the main purpose of the trip. Cover is only available if the activity is undertaken on 'an occasional and incidental basis' and where an additional premium has been paid.
Wakeboarding is covered. It is regarded the same as waterskiing.
Yes you can, but this is subject to you cancelling the policy within 14 days of purchase, and you not having travelled or being in the process of making a claim.
We always advise that you take a copy of all of your insurance documents with you as you never know when you might need them. The bare minimum you should ever travel with is a copy of our full policy wording along with a note of your policy number, level of cover and issuing agents name.
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On topic kinda, is A Hard Day's Night the only song in the game (including DLC) that George plays the 12-string?
According to a Beatles book I have, (Beatlesongs by William J. Dowlding p. 117), it says George played as Fender Stratocaster [sonic blue tremolo]).
That being said, maybe they're not right all the time. So? It's a game. I forgot that they used a 12-string acoustic guitar (called a Framus Hootenany [sp]) which John had in Help!
well I guess I'll eat crow.
That certainly sounded like George's rick to me. Guess it sounded like a 12 string because John and George were playing the solo in unison.
I'd have been happier if the solo showed both John and George playing Strats in unison though. That would make for an interesting display.
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So this week I got a job. It's a job that sounds cool. It's near my house and in the morning when I walk there I'll buy coffee from a cute café where the barista wears hawaiian shirts. I start my job in two weeks, which gives me a lot of time prepare, and also a lot of time to purchase things I don't yet have the money for. Also, it provides me with two weeks of actual holidays to spend doing holiday-things, without having write job-applications. After this next two weeks, holidays will be a commodity to be nurtured and treated sensibly. Like bank accounts. Or puppies. When I was little, holidays were exciting, magical, and most importantly happened four times every year. Both my anonymous parents were teachers, and so their holidays coincided with mine. At the time, I didn't realise their occupation was the reason for our ability to take family holidays. To me, it seemed infinitely sensible that the world just stops four times a year, so that everyone can be with their families and eat ice-cream (never mind the people who serve the ice-cream… maybe my family's holidays were somehow staggered with theirs'). It certainly never occurred to me that when I grew up I might not get my four designated holidays per year. It seemed (read 'seems') insane. When I was growing up, my family spent many of our holidays camping in various coastal towns. As mentioned previously, most my memories from these events revolve around ice-cream. Also disagreements of which foods can be cooked in a wok (not as many as you think, Dad), and disagreements over the rules of Gin Rummy. Our last family holiday began with my wok-loving father putting up metal tent-poled in a lightning storm (while my mother and two sisters cried at him from the car), and ended with some unpleasant (and lasting) tension between my anonymous sister Bridget and I regarding 'Who left the tent open in the rain?' (and I swear it was probably not me. Plus, the Tarago was a pretty sweet second-choice sleeping option, in my opinion). Anyway. When I got a little older, I realised that only The Lucky Ones; school-teachers, get four holidays per year. Meanwhile, other perfectly good grown-ups make do with much less. It is my believe that the doctors, administrative workers, engineers, council workers, draftsmen and hawaiian shirted baristas that I know all work quite hard too. They suffer the same three-thirty-itis as teachers. They know the pull of the Freddo fundraising box (and have had to live through the twenty-cent price increase) the same as teachers. And yet, when it comes to having time out to eat ice-cream and cook wok-food, these poor plebs are annually under-compensated. After some caffeine fuelled thought (the most reasonable kind), I have decided that there ought to some kind of dramatic Holiday Uprising. A 'Huprising', if you will. I will lead it through the powers of this blog (with my eleven 'followers' in tow), and you can join if you like. We'll can Hawaiian Shirts (Up for discussion). Hmm. It comes to mind that I have a lot of friends who are teachers. Also more family members who are teachers than who aren't. Also, I think at least five of my eleven 'followers' are teachers. But I reckon together we could take em'. Another potential Huprising outfit that I found in a sewing magazine. Seems like it'd be good for all ages. And would also work at bedtime. Kathryn writes for KROCK.com.au every Friday. Find out more about her here |
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On an Arkham Horror note, the missus and I brought the game on our short vacation, ended up playing against fricking Cthulhu himself (we always choose our GOO and investigators randomly) and actually won. Huzzah.
Also, on a Magic-related note, anyone picking up the new Duels of the Planeswalkers game out at the end of this month?