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Travel insurance is important if you want to ensure that you’ll be able to get medical treatment whilst you’re away. For more information on our travel insurance products .
On holiday the cost of medical care could run to thousands of pounds.
Insurances; such as private health insurance and accident cover through a credit card scheme for instance don’t cover most travel emergencies.
Without an adequate travel insurance policy, you may have to meet the emergency costs out of your own pocket. The British Consulate may well not be able to assist you.
Travel insurance that includes medical expenses and repatriating you is essential.
498,000 individuals and families claimed on travel insurance in 2018.
£1.1 million Was paid out every day by travel insurers in 2018.
Source: Analysis conducted by finder.com
In 2018 the majority of claims were made for medical expenses, at over 52% — totalling £209 million.
Cost of travel insurance can be less than a couple of glasses of wine at the airport bar. Yet an estimated one in five travellers still travel without insurance.
Source: Analysis conducted by finder.com
A claim was mde in 2018 for £760,000 by a tourist visiting the USA who required treatment for a stroke and an air ambulance back to the UK.
Source: Analysis conducted by finder.com
The main benefit of travel insurance is the emergency medical cover it affords whilst on holiday.
What happens if you are injured whilst hiking in the hills and need to be helicoptered to hospital?
Would you be able cope if you your partner or one of your children were injured of became sick, in the US or some other country whose medical care costs are very expensive?
With proper holiday insurance covering those costs, you’ll know the value of travel insurance and why it is as essential as a passport.
