Legal Expenses Insurance

With Legal Expenses Insurance, you and your family will be assured of legal assistance for a very reasonable price.

 

Specifications

Limited cover
  • Disputes over car repairs
  • Disputes resulting from your participation in traffic (also as a pedestrian or cyclist). Persons outside your family are included in the cover if they are driving or travelling in your vehicle with your permission
  • Disputes arising from your capacity as a passenger, e.g. in an aeroplane, train or car
  • Disputes over guarantees
  • Disputes resulting from the purchasing of goods, hiring or purchasing of services
  • Disputes with landlords, authorities, neighbours and building contractors
  • Disputes resulting from the sale or purchase of real estate occupied by yourself      
Inclusive
  • Necessary travel and accommodation expenses in connection with an appearance before a foreign court
  • Payment of sureties to foreign authorities
  • Expenses for witnesses and other external experts
  • Expenses for disputes with the authorities over building permits.      
Extended cover

All the disputes included in limited cover, plus: 

  • Disputes over salaries and pensions
  • Disputes with employers and social security bodies      
Insured persons All persons belonging to your household, including unmarried children who are living away from home for the purposes of full-time studies.

Cover for persons outside your family if they are driving or travelling in your vehicle with your permission.

Rechtswijzer (Law Guide)

Insured persons may call upon the experts at Rechtswijzer for matters which fall outside the scope of the insurance: 

  • Legal advice from an expert: free
  • Referral to expert or body: discount
  • Acting as intermediary with external person or body: one-off intermediary fee
  • Referral to external expert: reduced rate
Premium
  • Limited cover: € 11.75 a month
  • Extended cover: € 18.25 a month      

To calculate your premium, please contact the Expat Account team or your ABN AMRO branch. If you have three or more ABN AMRO package insurance policies, you qualify for a premium discount.

Policy charges

€ 3.63 on taking out your first package insurance.

Collection charges

€ 0.57 for each premium due date. For each collection (the total premium over all accounts is collected in one go).

Insurance tax

9,7% on premium and charges.

Qualifying period None for the portion relating to traffic risks, or if the insurance policy was taken out immediately following another legal expenses insurance policy that would have provided cover for the notified incident. In other cases, incidents within the first three months of the insurance are not covered.
Exclusions Among others: disputes with the government (e.g. over tax matters), divorce.
Terms and conditions The Shared Conditions for insurance products, the Legal Expenses Insurance Conditions, the Clauses Sheet Terrorism Cover and the Damage, Healthcare and Income insurance Advice Sheet (in Dutch) are available for downloading in handy pdf format.