On a recent holiday, you lost a valuable item. Fortunately, you have travel insurance to cover the cost of anything lost. Write a letter to the manager of your insurance company. In your letter ● describe the item you lost ● explain how you lost it ● tell the insurance company what you would like them to do. Begin your letter as follows:

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Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to make an insurance claim for an item that I lost
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on holiday
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week. The item was a wristwatch that I inherited from my grandfather. Both the watch strap and the face are made of gold, and next to being worth a considerable amount of money, it
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has a great sentimental value. I believe that I must have left the watch on the beach before the hotel where I was staying.
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did return to research for it, but I can only assume that it had either been covered by sand or that it had been washed out to sea. I took out comprehensive travel
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insurance
with your company, and my contract states that all lost items are covered. I would
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ask that you review the attached information regarding the estimated value of the watch and that you process my claim as quickly as possible. Please let me know should you require any
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information. Yours faithfully, Ali Heydari
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • valuable possession
  • insurance claim
  • misplace
  • irreplaceable
  • receipt
  • policyholder
  • reimbursement
  • coverage
  • claim number
  • deductible
  • documentation
  • authenticate
  • liability
  • premium
  • accidental loss
  • indemnity
  • beneficiary
  • contact details
  • substantiate
  • correspondence
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