Travel Insurance

There have been many threads on here about travel insurance. Just do a search on travel insurance and choose Travel Forum and then 1 year or less to get the most recent ones.

We have always used Travel Guard and have had only one claim. The manner in which they handled it was great!! Had to document the claim with paper work but nothing that was not reasonable. We always sign up within 15 days of our first trip deposit so as to be covered for preexisting conditions. You can go to their web site and check out the different polices. You might want to consider medical evacuation insurance as well. Most travel policies have medical evacuation coverage. But they USUALLY will only evacuate you to the nearest hospital than can treat you. There is a company named "Med Jet Assist" that has a number of different membership plans. It in NOT medical insurance -- just med evacuation coverage. As long as you are more than 150 miles from home, they will, if medically necessary, fly you back to your home hospital in a medical jet with medical personnel. Google them and see what you think. Hope this helps. TC

Yep, very popular topic. Don't restrict yourself to a country forum.

Also do a google search in general interest papers like the NY Times, LA Times, etc. and also the WSJ.

Hi Bridgette,

Here's a link to answers to your question, as I asked a similar question recently:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/travel-ins-have-you-used-it

Paul