{"id":1003,"date":"2009-03-06T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-03-06T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:52:25","slug":"is-it-still-safe-to-get-travel-guard-travel-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/is-it-still-safe-to-get-travel-guard-travel-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Still Safe to Get Travel Guard Travel Insurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I wrote &#8220;<a title=\"Yes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/is-it-safe-to-get-aig-travel-guard-travel-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is it Safe to Get AIG Travel Guard Travel Insurance?<\/a>&#8221; on September 30, 2008. A lot has happened in the past 5 months, including AIG receiving $150,000,000,000 ($150 billion) in US Government Bailout funds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Steve, my wife wants me to ask you: do you think it&#8217;s still safe to get Travel Guard travel insurance?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My answer is &#8220;Yes&#8221;, but not because I sell Travel Guard. In case you don&#8217;t know, I only sell travel insurance plans from <a title=\"Pre-screened Trustworthy Travel Insurance Companies\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/trusted-travel-insurance-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6 pre-screened &#038; handpicked companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why these 6 companies?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TripInsuranceStore.com<\/a> is like a grocery store with limited shelf space. If a company comes to me and says &#8220;we have a really good cookie you should sell&#8221;. I&#8217;m not going to take away the Oreos, Keebler, Famous Amos, Chips Ahoy! &#038; Milano cookies in order to test out another cookie.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Get Side-By-Side Comparisons or call 888-407-3854\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/get-a-quote.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see how Travel Guard&#8217;s plans compare to our other trustworthy travel insurance plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Does Steve Still Like Travel Guard?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I used to be a Registered Representative and Certified Financial planner with Series 6, Series 7 and Series 22 securities licenses. Nothing from my past experience tells me to be worried about the safety of Travel Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance companies are regulated by the states&#8217; insurance departments where they do business. This includes the requirement to have substantial financial reserves set aside to pay future claims.<\/p>\n<p>John Noel, the President of Travel Guard a piece you should find helpful and re-assuring: <a title=\"See the Travel Guard Gold details\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-guard-gold-plan-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here to learn more about Travel Guard&#8217;s Financial Reserves<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m not downplaying, nor ignoring that the USA &#038; much of the world is in serious financial crisis. As bad as it is, things could be much worse. Like something big hitting our planet. Thankfully that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/science\/03\/03\/asteroid.misses.earth\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 yard wide asteroid missed the Earth by 38,000 miles on 3\/2\/09<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about <a title=\"See the Travel Guard Gold details\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-guard-gold-plan-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travel Guard&#8217;s fine travel insurance<\/a> plans? <a title=\"See the Travel Guard Gold details\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-guard-gold-plan-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see Travel Guard Gold&#8217;s plan details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe I wrote &#8220;Is it Safe to Get AIG Travel Guard Travel Insurance?&#8221; on September 30, 2008. A lot has happened in the past 5 months, including AIG receiving $150,000,000,000 ($150 billion) in US Government Bailout funds. Hi Steve, my wife wants me to ask you: do you think it&#8217;s still safe to get Travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-steve-dasseos","category-how-travel-insurance-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}