{"id":12,"date":"2007-10-16T00:53:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-10-16T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T05:53:02","slug":"what-is-travel-insurance-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/what-is-travel-insurance-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Travel Insurance? (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I ended my last entry with this:<strong>What Commonly Is Called Travel Insurance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>travel health \/ medical<\/li>\n<li>trip cancellation<\/li>\n<li>flight accident<\/li>\n<li>baggage \/ luggage<\/li>\n<li>rental car damage waivers<\/li>\n<li>evacuation plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn what these coverages are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travel health \/ medical<\/strong> covers you if you are hurt or get sick when you are traveling outside your country of residence. Generally, these plans have a deductible and copay. They rarely cover pre-existing conditions. If so, their definition of a pre-existing condition may be different form what you expect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trip cancellation<\/strong> plans include in a package these &#038; other coverages: trip interruption, travel health, emergency evacuation and a wide range of other coverges. All Trip cancellation plans I know of are package plans even though articles sometimes appear advising people to get trip cancellation only plans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/get-a-quote.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see how different plans compare<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight accident<\/strong> is life insurance. You have to die in a plane crash to collect on it. Some plans include medical benefits if you&#8217;re hurt in a plane crash, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/flight-insurance.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> You can see flight insurance plans here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baggage \/ luggage<\/strong> coverage. You can get stand alone plans, but the drawback with these is that they usually don&#8217;t cover stolen luggage. However, a Trip cancellation \/ interruption package plan includes coverage for stolen luggage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rental car damage waivers<\/strong> &#8211; this is a 3rd party damage to a rental car plan available to most US residents. Instead of paying up to $30 a day, you can get one for $9 a day. We have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/rental-car-insurance-collision-damage-waiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rental car damage waiver plan here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evacuation plans<\/strong> &#8211; Emergency evacuation \/ transportation is included in many trip cancellation \/ interruption plans. What&#8217;s attractive about these plans is that if you are hospitalized you can be transported to the medical facility of your choosing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/medjetassist.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medjet Assist&#8217;s<\/a> the best known of the Evacuation plans.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe I ended my last entry with this:What Commonly Is Called Travel Insurance? travel health \/ medical trip cancellation flight accident baggage \/ luggage rental car damage waivers evacuation plans Learn what these coverages are: Travel health \/ medical covers you if you are hurt or get sick when you are traveling outside your country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-travel-insurance-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}