Australian woman Kylee Enwright stranded in Thailand with catastrophic brain injury to be flown home

The Australian woman was stranded in Thailand after her insurance company claimed she was too drunk when she fell and suffered a catastrophic brain injury.

Kylee Enwright, 48, has been fighting for her life in a coma since May 28 after she slipped and fell on her face on the second day of their holiday in Khao Lak, in the south of the country.

Insurer Cover-More claims Ms Enwright’s injury was caused by excessive drinking of several beers and Long Island ice tea cocktails, though her blood alcohol level was never tested at the hospital.

Instead, the company used the couple’s tab, CCTV footage and Ms Enwright’s body weight to calculate an estimated blood alcohol level of 0.35 at the time of her fall – more than seven times Australia’s legal limit.

Her distraught husband, Paul, couldn’t pay the more than $200,000 for chartering a medical evacuation flight back to their home in Singleton, NSW – never mind his wife’s medical bill which is already over $50,000.

But after 3,000 people donated nearly $207,000 to a GoFundMe On the page set up for the couple, Mr. Enwright is organizing a medical pick-up from Bangkok.

“It is amazing how much generosity more than 3,000 individuals and businesses have donated to get Kylee home, thanks to your support, the Enwrights are currently organizing medical drives from Bangkok,” wrote GoFundMe organizer Olivia Kennedy.

She added, “A positive sign: Kylee is starting to open her eyes at 10-15 minute intervals throughout the day.”

Ms Enwright (pictured in hospital) apparently mistook a balcony ledge for stairs and fell two feet, landing on her face and causing brain damage

Cover-More said it used a ‘fair and reasonable’ process to find Ms Enwright had had too much to drink to be covered at the time of her fall (above)

The married couple had been enjoying a drink at their resort’s pool bar when Mrs. Enwright left to use the bathroom, seemingly mistaking a balcony ledge for a staircase.

The grandmother fell two feet onto concrete, landing face-first, bleeding from her head and ears.

The couple’s insurer, Cover-More, used CCTV footage and the tab from the couple’s bar — with nine Long Island iced teas and 14 beers ordered to their room number — and Ms. Enwright’s weight to estimate how drunk she was .

The company said it had come to the conclusion that Ms Enwright had exceeded the 0.19 coverage limit after carefully reviewing the evidence it had gathered.

But Mr Enwright claimed the bill was left open when he learned his wife was injured and believes other guests put their drinks on the bill.

The distraught husband said the insurer’s finding was just an excuse to avoid paying his wife’s huge medical bill.

“I think they’ve always had it in their minds from the beginning to find a way out of this policy,” he said.

‘Like most Australians, we bought travel insurance at the level of cover we thought would be adequate. We thought we had done everything right,” Mr Enwright said 7News.

However, the insurer said it concluded that Ms Enwright had exceeded the cover limit of 0.19 after carefully reviewing the evidence gathered.

“Cover-More is fair and reasonable in our claims processes and we make our decisions after a thorough review of all available details and medical information,” Cover-More said in a statement Thursday.

Mr Enwright (pictured with his wife) said the couple thought they had ‘done everything right’ in insuring their trip and is devastated that Cover-More is not covering Mrs Enwright’s medical bill

“We have provided Kylee’s husband, Paul, with a detailed and transparent explanation for denying this claim.

“This is a sad matter and we will continue to provide Paul and Kylee and their families with whatever non-financial assistance Cover-More can.

“This includes helping to arrange repatriation to Australia, assisting with hospital admissions and a ground ambulance in Australia, travel arrangements and making arrangements with local doctors abroad or in Australia.”