John Hancock offers three comprehensive policies on Squaremouth; Bronze, Silver, and Gold. All plans provide adequate medical coverage for international travel and the option to add Cancel for Any Reason insurance for eligible trips.
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*The overall customer rating is the average of all reviews for the provider since they joined the marketplace.
John Hancock customers praise the provider for their helpful customer service, especially when modifying existing policies. Some customers report slow communication and time-consuming paperwork when filing a claim.
The process was much easier than anticipated. We had a bag stolen from hotel storage. We did file a police report with an itemized list of items stolen. Upon returning to the US, we filed a claim. While we did have to provide a fair amount of documentation, we were quickly reimbursed for the stolen bag and contents without any hassle.
Purchasing the policies was easy, customer service from John Hancock was very helpful.
never heard anything about out claim
Took months to complete. Had to explain and argue everything on top of receipts and bank statements. Should not be so difficult.
They work very very hard to find reasons not to pay so it makes the process miserable for the customer. In our case a few days before vacation I was admitted to the hospital on emergency basis ended up with major heart problems requiring quadruple bypass surgery thus having to cancel our trip. Notification to them was made first week in September with receipts for everything we had paid for that we were unable to cancel and that was not sufficient, they constantly wanted to verify the obvious just as a delay, and wear you down tactic. Our Airlines and Cruise companies were no problem at all in giving us and them information and what we were out but again not good enough, so then it was a copy of every individual payment, not good enough . Then actual bank statements of each payment. It was over the top and luckily had time and resources to play their game it took two months to receive the majority of what we were out minus the cost of the insurance itself. Not a great company or experience is my opinion.
First emergency call with John Hancock after medical emergency and travel disruption was confusing and I was still in shock. The agent did not explain things well. Next day I was contacted by another agent who expressed empathy and walked me through the medical expense part of my claim but didn’t help explain travel change/disruption as those are separate areas of the company. Then an agent followed up a couple times to make sure the medical part was going ok. They were steering my answers so that they didn’t have to pay me for anything. Kind of rude. Also called me before I left the country to say the medical part was now closed, which it wasn’t because I wasn’t back in the US yet and something could have happened before I got home.
I still don’t know what to do about travel disruption and now their third party claims company is asking for the same documents I already sent John Hancock.
Review Updated: 11/28/2025
The process took a long time from the time I filed it. They asked for a lot of documentation that wasn’t relevant to my claim, it was under $1000 claim, and I had to tell them several times that information was not needed and not available for this claim. All of the required documents were in pdf, whereby I had to print and hand write them vs online forms, which was inefficient for a major insurance company.
They eventually paid most of the claim in a month time, but there were a lot of back and forth emails and the customer service phone number didn’t have extended hours for western US time zones.
The process was slow but John Hancock did approve our claim. Overall, we were pleased with their service and would purchase through them again.
It’s really hard for me to rate John Hancock insurance at this point. I called for help because the website was giving me problems and I was just directed to a different website. It took hours to get everything complete because if you’re not acting fast, the site just goes back to the beginning and wipes out everything you’ve put in before. I finally got everything done and that was on Monday, October 6 and I have yet to receive any further information from them at this point in time.
No issues. Since I do not need to file a claim I cannot give any additional feedback
While I was away there was a threat of an air traffic controller strike in Paris that would have impacted our travel. I called to find out about coverage so as to be ready to respond. The agent was very helpful. Fortunately, the strike was called off.
Had to change dates of departure and details. The agent made it easy to communicate and confirmed changes in coverage dates. Great experience.