Pilot SAAM

Pilot SAAM sells loss of licence insurance to professional and trainee pilots around the world. The team works from Paris, France.

The product comes from SAAM, which has been known since 1952 as the main insurance broker in the French market for flight crew loss of licence cover. On 1 July 2012, SAAM became SAAM Verspieren Group, a subsidiary of the Verspieren Group. The group offers every kind of aviation insurance, including crew, aircraft and aerospace. It stays highly specialised in loss of licence cover for flight crew.

Pilot SAAM was designed with the Pilot Protect Association and the insurer Swiss Life. It covers professional pilots and trainee pilots whose work depends on a class 1 medical certificate. Pilots of any nationality can join, if they are under 51 on the start date.

The policy has three kinds of cover. The first is all-cause death, which pays the chosen sum to the beneficiaries. The second is permanent loss of licence, which applies when the medical certificate is permanently suspended. Both can insure up to 600,000 euros for professional pilots and 110,000 euros for trainee pilots. The third is temporary loss of licence. It pays a daily amount of up to 500 euros to professional pilots when the medical certificate is suspended for a time.

Cover applies to illness or accident until retirement age. Pilots can choose their cover and sums insured freely, and can change them later. Group insurance is also available.

The company has 38 employees who speak several languages. It handles more than 250 claims a year. Pilots can ask for a quote online and use a customer area. The service is available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Services

• Loss of licence insurance
• All-cause death cover
• Permanent loss of licence cover
• Temporary loss of licence cover
• Group insurance
• Online quotes