Cancel Your Plane Ticket Or Pay The Change Fee?

September 9, 2011

Subscribe Have you ever wondered what happens to your plane tickets if you have to cancel your trip for a covered reason and file a claim on your trip cancellation travel insurance plan? Do you: Cancel your flight and get no refund from the airline? (this means you claim the full cost of the plane […]

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Does Travel Insurance Cover You If Can’t Get Your Car?

September 2, 2011

Subscribe If you liked my last Blog post Do Callers Think We Were Born Yesterday?, you’ll like this one. Last Saturday, Aug. 27th, I got a call from a client named Mike stuck in the Caribbean because his flight was cancelled due to Hurricane Irene. The earliest he could come back was on Wed. Aug. […]

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Do Callers Think We Were Born Yesterday?

August 26, 2011

Subscribe I received this call yesterday August 25, 2011: Caller: I need travel insurance that will help me if there’s bad weather. Especially if the place we’re going is damaged. Steve: Where are you going? Caller: The Outer Banks of North Carolina. Steve: When are you going? Caller: I’m driving there on August 30th for […]

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Having Trouble With Your GPS?

August 9, 2011

Subscribe I took some time off from July 29th to August 8th. My family and I went to the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota and also to Two Harbors, MN on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was great to take a vacation. Sidenote to vent my spleen: on August 1st one my companies […]

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Call or Write Congress and President Obama

July 14, 2011

Subscribe I hope it’s no surprise to you that there’s a budget fight going on in Washington, DC. No matter your age, ethnicity, political leaning, State of residence, weight, height, interests, sleeping habits or anything else that makes you unique, the one thing we all have in common is that the outcome of this fight […]

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Medical Tourism and Travel Insurance Coverage

July 12, 2011

Subscribe What is Medical Tourism? Medical Tourism is where people who live in one country travel to another country to receive medical, dental and surgical care at a significant savings. There are many destinations that provide equal to or greater care than the traveler would have in their own country. The savings can be as […]

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Can I Pick Which Trip Costs to Insure?

June 8, 2011

Subscribe I have a question about our policy that we purchased from you for our October trip to Germany. TripInsuranceStore.com is the only place telling me I have to insure our full prepaid & non-refundable trip costs in order to get the pre-existing condition and the cancel for any reason coverage. Other places I’ve called […]

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Should I Help the Travel Insurance Company Save Money?

May 13, 2011

Subscribe First, sorry about the long delay writing on my blog. I was sick with a bacterial infection in my lungs for the past 6 weeks. After going through that, I’d take a viral illness anytime! There are recurring questions that come up regularly in the claims process. A common one is “Should I Help […]

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Why Trip Insurance Limits Trip Cancellation Coverage

April 12, 2011

Subscribe Hi Steve, Thanks for your call yesterday. Referring to the schedule of benefits, why does the pre-existing medical condition exclusion waiver state coverage is up to a maximum of the first $50,000 of “Trip Cost”? Does that only refer to trip cancellation etc. Our trip will only cost $1,095 each. Where does it say […]

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Credit Card Mileage Award Trips Can’t Be Insured

March 30, 2011

Subscribe Hi Steve, We’ve purchased travel insurance through you in the past. I was hoping you could provide me some information. My wife and I have booked flights to travel to Italy for two weeks in May 2011. Since we booked the trip, my grandfather has been diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer and it is unclear […]

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Pregnancy is Not a Covered Reason to Cancel Your Trip

March 18, 2011

Subscribe Steve, I am considering taking a cruise Dec 2-5. The cruise does not let you travel if you are over 24 weeks pregnant. I have to book the cruise in April. Are there any insurance companies that cover my non refundable deposit if I get pregnant? Molly H. Hi Molly, You cannot cancel a […]

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Happy Pi Day or Half Tau Day

March 14, 2011

Subscribe Today is “National Half-Tau Day” or, as others call it, it’s “National Pi Day”. Not apple or Cherry Pie, but what you multiply the diameter of a circle by to get the length of the circumference: Circumference = Diameter times Pi. I’ve had a strained relationship with Pi. In 1997 I read a book […]

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Travel Insurance Can’t Help Debbie

March 11, 2011

Subscribe Steve, I knew I was past the deadline — wish I would have known about your wonderful website TripInsuranceStore.com when I booked. I looked at all of the reasons and I might need the plan that lets you cancel for any reason, but I don’t know if I can get it. Here’s my circumstance: […]

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Where Is The International Space Station?

February 21, 2011

Subscribe I’m a space, sci-fi and science buff. I was born in 1957, so I grew up with space exploration in the news. Plus, I watched “Lost In Space”, “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Star Trek”. On top of that, I had an aunt & uncle who lived in Cocoa Beach, Florida. I got a […]

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