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		<title>Beware of some Travel Insurance &#8220;Experts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/07/04/beware-of-some-travel-insurance-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once and awhile a person who has &#8220;expert&#8221; insurance credentials drifts or stumbles out of their area of expertise and offers advise in areas in which they have no or very little knowledge but because of the credentials people believe them.  Just yesterday an article, &#8220;Are You Covered?&#8221; appeared on the web site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCIA Adopts Guidelines to Protect Travelers</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/06/06/ncia-adopts-guidelines-to-protect-travelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 2, 2008 the Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) announced guidelines that protect life insurance consumers from discriminatory underwriting practices concerning their future travel plans.  
One of the hot issues in the past couple of years is the practice that some life insurance companies have employed to deny life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Flight Insurance, Life Insurance?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/04/18/is-flight-insurance-life-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is flight accident insurance really life insurance?  From time to time that question comes up.  Usually it comes from a traveler who is not in the insurance business and who makes the assumption that because the flight accident insurance pays a benefit based on the death of the insured that it&#8217;s a form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aircraft Inspections and Travel Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/04/11/aircraft-inspections-and-travel-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/04/11/aircraft-inspections-and-travel-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Flight delays and cancellations are in the news right now because of the safety inspections that are being required by the FAA.  Questions are being raised as to whether or not there is coverage under travel insurance policies for trips that are being affected.
It really depends on the company and plan that a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Mr. Batterson!</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/04/01/thank-you-mr-batterson/</link>
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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>Getting ready for Summer Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/03/05/getting-ready-for-summer-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Winters nearly over and Springs almost here. Time to think about Travel and Travel Insurance.
 And travel insurance. Its been a long winter in our part of the woods and I cant wait for the warmer days to get here. My wife and I planned a trip up to Maine for a week this coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first Flight Accident Policy - who bought it and when?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/27/the-first-flight-accident-policy-who-bought-it-and-when/</link>
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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 - Are the current ones better?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/22/travel-insurance-advertisments-are-the-current-ones-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/22/travel-insurance-advertisments-are-the-current-ones-better/#comments</comments>
		<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>Medical Evacuation and Cruises</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/19/medical-evacuation-and-cruises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/19/medical-evacuation-and-cruises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Id have to say that the second most important kind of insurance to have on a cruise is Emergency Medical Evacuation Coverage.  If you have a emergency injury or an illness that the on board medical facility is unable to deal with, youll more than likely be transported off the ship by whatever means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy - is it covered by travel insurance?</title>
		<link>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/07/pregnancy-is-it-covered-by-travel-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.quotewright.com/weblog/2008/02/07/pregnancy-is-it-covered-by-travel-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One question that we get several times a week is about trip insurance for a traveler who is pregnant or might become pregnant.  Is there coverage available?  The answer is yes &#038; no.
Yes, there is coverage available under some of the Access America policies (Family Basics, Deluxe, and Classic) but it only applies [...]]]></description>
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