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Travel Insurance comparison sites
Following up from yesterday’s post, here is a list of the major travel insurance comparison sites. Squaremouth.com is highly recommended, I think their quote system is the easiest to use.
Squaremouth.com
Insuremytrip.com
Quotewright.com
Totaltravelinsurance.com
Tripinsurancestore.com
Travelinsurancecenter.com

Customized Google Search for travel insurance »

Google launched Co-op this week, a custom search engine anyone can make. I designed an engine to focus on Travel Insurance, with the goal of narrowing the results and making searching easier.

As you can see, it is just like a regular Google search, with filtered results. This website is meant to be a [...]

What is the Feedback Forum? »

The TravelInsuranceReview.net Feedback Fourm is an eBay style way for consumers to provide reviews for travel insurance companies. It is quick, easy, and most importantly, effective.
Here’s how it works:

Go to TravelInsuranceReview.net and select Feedback Forum
Enter the name of the company you are reviewing
Select one of 3 Feedback choices

Positive
Neutral
Negative

Provide a short comment

It’s really that simple.
Again, just [...]

Unlicensed Tennessee Company receives several consumer complaints Part 2 »

Read part 1 of this series about Trip Assured’s troubles in Tennessee and beyond.
8/14/06 TravelWeekly.com report about disgruntled consumers
Two weeks later, in an article on TravelWeekly.com, the Texas cease and desist is discussed as well as two cases of disgruntled consumers. From TravelWeekly.com:
√¢‚Ǩ≈ìIn one case, Trip Assured’s failure to pay on a claim triggered a [...]

In The News 9/10/06 »

From the Dallas Morning News, a good article about traveling with your children and travel insurance plans that will cover them.
The article includes input from Dan McGinnity of Travel Guard and Peter Evans from InsureMyTrip.com.

Travel Insurance Feedback Forum »

Using Wufoo.com, I have added a new feedback feature to the blog. Please feel free to add you opinion.
You can use the form below, or access it anytime with the link to the right, Feedback Forum under Pages.

Fill out my Wufoo form!

Trip Assured »

Trip Assured Inc., of Crossville, Tennessee, provides products to travelers. Their products protect against trip cancellation, emergency medical expenses, emergency medical evacuation, and even lost or stolen checked baggage.
A traveler gives them an amount of money, depending on the length of trip and total cost of trip, and Trip Assured agrees to pay benefits [...]

In The News 9/5/06 »

An amazing story from the Kansas City Star about a student doing doctoral degree work in New Guinea. While living in the wild and videotaping birds, he suffered a burst appendix. He was able to treat himself with antibiotics, and make an absurd 5-day trek to an Australian hospital. (Read Full Story)
Also, from the Telegraph, [...]