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	<title>QuoteWright Travel Insurance News &#187; History of Travel Insurance</title>
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		<title>Happy Birthday &#8211; The Travelers!</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2009/04/01/happy-birthday-the-travelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to The Travelers Insurance Company &#8211; 145 years old today.  Why is it important?  Because it was on April 1, 1864 that The Travelers opened it&#8217;s doors in order to offer travel insurance to people traveling &#8211; hence the name The Travelers.  Just imagine, in the middle of the Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Mr. Batterson!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special thanks to J. G. Batterson, founder of The Travelers Insurance Company, for introducing travel insurance into the United States 144 years ago today!  
On April 1, 1864, Mr. Batterson with several other prominent Hartford, CT businessmen established The Travelers Insurance Company with the stated purpose to insure people while traveling, hence the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first Flight Accident Policy &#8211; who bought it and when?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the first Flight Accidental Death policy (then known as Aero Trip Ticket policy) sold?  And who purchased the first policy?
Good questions that probably would have been lost to history if not for &#8220;The Travelers 100 Years&#8221; published in  1964 to commemorate their centennial anniversary. 
The answer:

President W. Wilson of Washington, DC.
Sold: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Insurance Advertisments &#8211; Are the current ones better?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/22/travel-insurance-advertisments-are-the-current-ones-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once and awhile, when I need a chuckle I go to a book that I have from my career at The Travelers Insurance Company and look at an ad that they published in the 1860&#8217;s in Harper&#8217;s Weekly which was probably one of the first travel insurance ads ever run.  It&#8217;s priceless:

What would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United States Mutual Accident Association</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2007/12/10/united-states-mutual-accident-association/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across an interesting policy the other day that I would like to share with you.  It was written in 1894 from a company that is now defunct; United States Mutual Accident Association.  At the time the United States Mutual Accident Association was one of the largest travel insurers in the United States.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened on April 1, 1864?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2007/04/02/what-happened-on-april-1-1864/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened on April 1, 1864?  The answer is that the first travel insurance company opened its doors on that day.  The company was The Travelers Insurance Company and they were originally chartered to insure people traveling, hence the name The Travelers Insurance Company.  I don&#8217;t know if James Batterson, the founder, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>142 Years of Travel Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2006/04/01/142-years-of-travel-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of travel insurance in the United States.Â  Thanks to James Batterson, founder of The Travelers Insurance Company, for being the first to offer travel insurance in the United States.Â  On April 1, 1864, Mr. Batterson founded The Travelers Insurance Company for the purpose of insuring people who travel, hence the name [...]]]></description>
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