Roadside Assistance: Stay mobile in an emergency

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Roadside assistance

Stay mobile in an emergency: Roadside assistance will keep you mobile. Roadside assistance is a module in our Zurich Relax Assistance.

Stay mobile with us

The engine is on strike? The tyre is flat? Whatever it is, we will provide rapid assistance on site and organise a replacement vehicle. You can add our breakdown assistance to your Relax Assistance travel insurance or take out it as a separate module.

International travel insurance

Whether as a single module or as a package - with us you are always suitably insured when traveling. Put together your insurance cover according to your needs. So you only insure what you really need.
Single
Cancellation Insurance

Cancellation costs

  • Assumption of cancellation costs if the trip cannot be started 
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Basic package
Relax Assistance Travel Insurance

Cancellation costs 

  • Assumption of cancellation costs if the trip cannot be started  

Travel insurance 

  • Assumption of return travel and additional costs if the trip has to be interrupted 

Alternative travel

  • Assumption of travel costs following medically necessary repatriation during the trip 

Travel legal protection abroad 

  • Assistance with travel-related legal cases abroad
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Single/Additional
Roadside assistance

Roadside assistance

  • Assumption of costs for roadside assistance on site, with your own or someone else's motor vehicle and ensuring mobility 
  • Assumption of additional costs up to CHF 5,000 (incl. replacement vehicle) if the motor vehicle is no longer usable 
  • Roadside assistance for bicycles and motorised bicycles also insured
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What services are covered by breakdown assistance?

Roadside assistance is a module in the Zurich Relax Assistance and is also available separately. In the event of a breakdown and accidental damage (incl. collision, damage caused by natural hazards, theft) we deliver the following benefits:

  • Organization and costs of local roadside assistance, including replacing small parts
  • Recovery costs up to CHF 2,000 are insured
  • Costs of towing your vehicle to the nearest garage able to carry out the repairs
  • A replacement car while yours is being repaired, plus the costs of accommodation, onward or return travel combined up to a total of CHF 5,000

Which motor vehicles are insured?

  • Motor vehicles of up to 3,500 kg (Basic variant)
  • Mobile homes of between 3,500 kg and 9,000 kg total weight (Plus variant exclusively available from your insurance advisor)
  • Trailers pulled by insured motor vehicles

How are bicycles and e-bikes insured?

In the event of unfitness to ride due to a technical defect or accident and theft we provide the following benefits:

  • Organization and assumption of costs of breakdown assistance
  • Assumption of costs for accommodation, self-organized onward or return travel up to CHF 1,000
Relax Assistance

Travel Insurance

Whatever happens before and during your trip or when you’re home again, keep safe with Relax Assistance Travel Insurance.

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Car Insurance

Third party liability, collision or partial casco: Zurich delivers the optimum choice in coverage for your individual car insurance.

Personal Liability Insurance

Private liability insurance

A claim involving third parties or property can quickly become expensive. Private liability insurance gives you comprehensive, worldwide coverage.

Knowledge

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Carefree holidays anywhere in the world

Would you like to travel, but don't know how to protect yourself from the unexpected? Read our Zurich Relax Assistance travel insurance case studies to get a better idea.
A hailstorm.

When it's raining ice

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Relax thanks to the Zurich Help Point

Many customers are glad to have car repairs organized for them in the event of damage – via the Zurich Help Point.