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Frequent Travelers Choose Annual Travel Insurance Plans

August 12th, 2010

Are you a frequent international traveler? Whether you are enjoying several vacations to exotic international destinations each year or you conduct a significant amount of overseas business, you will find it necessary to equip yourself with a reliable international insurance policy. While shopping for one, you may find that it makes sense fiscally to buy an annual travel insurance policy.

There are multiple annual travel insurance policies available. One example is the Patriot Executive plan. This policy is for travelers making multiple trips of a duration no longer than 30 days during a year. It includes valuable medical benefits, but policyholders must be hold insurance coverage in their home country either through a group policy or through individual coverage. Read more…

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What is Travel Insurance?

June 25th, 2010

In order to decide whether you need travel insurance or not, you must first understand – what is travel insurance?

Travel insurance is a short term or temporary insurance that, depending on the terms of the plan you choose, can provide coverage for the medical and financial expenses due to sickness, accident, loss or damage of luggage during travelling. Travel insurance serves a varied clientele such as students, businessmen, leisure travelers, adventure travelers and many others. There are three important types of travel insurance. They are:

1. Accident or health travel insurance:
This travel insurance typically provides coverage for any accident or illness that you might sustain during the period of travel. I

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UK backpackers to Thailand top travel insurance claims

January 12th, 2010

British backpackers taking trips to Thailand top the number of people who filed travel insurance claims in 2009, it was reported.

Insurance firm InsuranceandGo said backpackers’ claims following a trip to Thailand account for 22 percent of all claims filed last year.

InsuranceGo founder Perry Wilson said that the jump in the number of travel insurance claims also highlights the growing number of crimes against tourists because of the lingering economic crunch. I

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ICICI Lombard Travel Insurance

December 25th, 2009

Indian travelers who are going out of the home country should purchase travel medical insurance to get medical coverage. ICICI Lombard travel insurance is a plan that safeguards Indian travelers by providing special benefits while traveling overseas. ICICI Lombard overseas travel insurance plans are available to the travelers as Platinum, Gold, Bronze, Silver and Salt & Pepper plans. All these plans are designed to suit the requirements of travelers of various age groups.

Travelers from age 1 to 70 years can purchase Platinum, Gold, Bronze and Silver plans in ICICI Lombard travel medical insurance. Senior citizens who are between the age of 71 and 85 are eligible to purchase Salt & Pepper plan under ICICI Lombard travel insurance.

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Overseas Travel Insurance India

December 4th, 2009

I am a businessman living in India while my son is working in the US. I visit my son and my daughter-in-law during special occasions. I always buy overseas travel insurance before starting my journey. I used to buy Indian travel insurance through insurance agents since I was not aware of the availability of purchase facility online. My son suggested E India Insurance while I was visiting the US last year. Since then I have purchased travel insurance online using my credit card.

At E India Insurance I was able to access travel insurance products by all the well known insurance companies. I used compare travel insurance India facility in E India Insurance and evaluated various plans before buying.

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