Anna Leibenko, a Toronto resident of just 24 years, is stranded in a hospital in Croatia after falling from a boat and hitting her head. Unconscious at the scene of the accident and suffering internal bleeding, Anna is now on life support and in a coma with internal bleeding and numerous head and face fractures. […]

While visiting Frankfurt, Germany to see his newborn granddaughter, Bill Lyng, a respected lawyer from Kissimmee, Florida, landed in a hospital just prior to returning to the U.S. and there he’s stayed. After a two-week visit with their daughter and military son-in-law, the Lyng’s were headed home when Bill was suddenly found lying on the […]

The family and friends of a young man from New Zealand are working to raise funds to pay for Sean Kenzie’s spiraling medical bills after he was involved in a traffic accident in Phuket. On June 30th, Mr. Kenzie was riding a motorcycle, a common mode of transportation in the area where he was visiting, […]

A young couple from New Jersey were seriously hurt in a scooter crash while on vacation in the Bahamas last week, but that was just the start of their ordeal. Not having insurance, these travelers were refused medical treatment by hospitals in Bahama and then later in Miami. Ms. Barreto suffered a dislocated leg, spine […]

Yesterday, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico, destroying homes, and sending at least 11 people to the hospital. Pieces of buildings crumbled and fell as far away as Mexico City – approximately 200 miles from the quake’s epicenter. The epicenter is not being reported as about 15 miiles east of Ometepec, Guerrero. Guerrero residents are […]

We recently read about this travel disaster: A Canadian couple with two children landed in Costa Rica only to be put immediately on a return flight because their presumably valid passports were due to expire in less than three months, which made the passports invalid according to Costa Rican laws.  A staggeringly long list of […]

Sara Baker, a young woman from the UK, recently broke her back snowboarding in Canada. Baker lost control in Whistler resort and needed immediate surgery to repair crushed vertebrae and a nearly severed spine. Rescuers had to land on a glacier to rescue her. According to current media reports, she has a good chance of […]

The Minnesota Department of Commerce has announced that over 80,000 travelers will receive refunds for travel insurance policies they were automatically enrolled in when purchasing airfare on Travelocity.com. ‘Opt-out’ travel insurance is a bad practice As we have written before, buying travel insurance through your booking site is not the best idea. However, the practice […]