Archive for the 'Travel Insurance Insights' Category

Travel Supplier “Waiver” plans - Are they Legal?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Some of them might not!
What are cancellation “waivers”? They are generally an option offered by some travel suppliers where, in exchange for paying an additional fee, they will “waive” their cancellation penalty if the traveler has to cancel their trip. Some of the ‘waivers” are unconditional and offer coverage for any reason and [...]

Weatherproof your vacation with travel insurance.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Weatherproof your trip with the right Travel Insurance plan. Find the right one by using QuoteWright.com’s convenient weather coverage comparison chart.
Understanding how travel insurance responds to adverse weather and natural disasters like hurricanes can be a daunting task. Policies differ on the type and amount of coverage that they offer. John [...]

Consumer Reports misses the mark!

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Recently Consumer Reports published an article, Travel Insurance: Why you rarely need it and in my opinion they missed the mark entirely and they end up with some misleading and erroneous generalities.
The most misleading statement made in the article is that:
“In most cases,… the insurance merely duplicates coverage that they already have”.
This [...]

Top 4 reasons to buy insurance at 1st trip payment

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

There are 4 good reasons to purchase travel insurance when you make your first trip deposit:

Most plans offer you extra benefits - the most important being the waiver of pre-existing conditions exclusion.
Even though some plans will offer the waiver at final trip payment you have much bigger selection as well as cheaper plans to choose [...]

More Factors Adding to Travel Delay

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

While my last post touched on why travel delays are expected to get worse, there are a couple of other points worth mentioning concerning cuts in airline staff and rising “load capacity”. While airlines struggle to stay profitable they have been cutting back on staff and operating flights at 80-90 percent capacity, as opposed to [...]