Aviation insurance underwriter Global Aerospace is now offering enhanced family assistance, including crisis management benefits, to turbine business aircraft hull and liability policyholders in the U.S. Its Enhanced Family Assistance endorsement, to be available beginning January 1, will respond in the event of significant injuries to passengers or crewmembers, as well as provide critical crisis management cost reimbursement.

Under the plan, insurers will pay expenses associated with the emotional care and support of the spouse, child, parent, grandparent, legal guardian, brother, or sister of an injured passenger or crewmember. This includes family member care, counseling, travel to and from the accident site, and recovery of personal effects.

Insurers will also reimburse or pay crisis management expenses incurred for securing a public relations firm and media management services following a crisis event. All payments under the endorsement are made in addition to the policy’s limit of liability.

“We recognize that families need care when their loved ones are injured in an aviation accident,” said Jeff Bruno, president and chief underwriting officer at Global Aerospace (Booth 1438). “This new option gives owners and operators peace of mind that two of their most important assets—their people and their brand—are protected.”