Insurance protection shall apply for assumption of legal costs for advice to assert damage compensation claims after events with personal injuries. There shall be no insurance protection for claims of pure property and financial damage.
The term Europe is defined geographically and also in cludes Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, the Mediterranean islands, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cyprus, the Azores and the Asian regions of Turkey and the current and former Member States of the CIS.
The services stated protect all domestic and foreign members in the event of claims arising from their association activities.
- Participation in any events advertised by the sections of the Alpenverein;
- Taking part in the following sports (also privately, outside of section events): hiking, mountaineering, climbing, via ferrata, skiing, ski touring, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, white water canoeing, canyoning and mountain biking/trekking bike tours. Mountain biking/trekking bike tours are defined as such tours that are undertaken on cycle paths, forest roads, forest trails, mountain trails and other unpaved paths as well as designated practice or training areas. Accordingly, there is no insurance protection for trips outside the above- mentioned forest roads and trails, such as on general public traffic areas governed by the Rules of the Road (StVO), pavements, access roads and access paths, etc.
