Heart Attack Travel Insurance Claim Topples $682,000

The next time your clients are booking trips and considering whether to buy travel insurance, tell them about this traveler’s tale:  a heart attack that led to a lengthy hospitalization and a long air ambulance trip could have cost them $682,000 — Southern Cross Travel Insurance’s biggest claim.

If the traveler hadn’t bought travel insurance, getting that bill in the mail might have given them another heart attack. And if that’s not a testament to the value of travel insurance, just take a look at a few of the other top claims submitted to the New Zealand company:

• $212,000: bowel illness in the United States
• $141,000: broken hip in South America
• $106,000: respiratory and heart failure requiring an air ambulance from a Pacific Island

Another costly travel medical insurance that was recently in the news: ABC News reported on one couple’s honeymoon cruise nightmare. The groom sliced open his foot on coral during a Honduras excursion, but after a cruise doctor stitched up his foot, he later developed a serious infection with pieces of coral found still in his foot. The story concludes with experts’ recommendations: get travel medical insurance. But the experts stress that travelers should shop around and read the fine print.

Or, you can simply contact Travel Insurance Center, and let us do that for your clients. Our travel insurance experts will shop around and recommend the best plan. We know the fine print, so you or your clients don’t have to read five different carriers’ fine print to understand which will be the best plan. Give us a call today at 1-866-979-6753 or use our expert recommendation tool.