 Insurance for Americans
Rob ,
I have held-off looking into the cheaper Italian policy that Ralph and Mayi have here because they said we have to have our proof of residency. Yet again, without our residence card, we go nowhere! We have our Permesso di Soggiorno (permit to stay ala American Green Card) from Cosenza, but we have yet to get a resident ID card from the comune which is also needed to get health insurance and so many things. One thing leads to another and it's a big circle too in that the permesso we worked so hard for has to be re-applied for this winter. At least each year, the term of the permesso gets longer.
Anyway, If this is all true, then an American with a holiday property here would not be eligible for the Italian insurance and you'd have to look into the more expensive policy with Copeland. Our comune has our residency applications and we hope to hear from them as soon as the Agosto holiday ends next week. They have yet to ask for photographs which are needed to produce the cards.
At the beginning of this string you see the name Ivan De Luca in Scalea. He's nice and we had a policy thru him last year, but it didn't have the earthquake coverage we want more than anything else. If you're not worried about quakes, then he can write an affordable general policy for you. Sorry we don't remember what we paid.
I'll let you know more as we learn. DJ |