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Is Travel Insurance Worth the Cost?

29.04.10

"I travel more than 150,000 miles a year and I have tricks to get out of everything, and I couldn't get out of this," Mr. Hartwig says.

Nor were his unanticipated expenses covered by insurance, because he didn't buy a trip-cancellation/interruption policy. "If I were taking a long tour-type vacation I would consider it, but most of my trips are very rapid, and because I change my schedule very quickly, I would continuously be incurring charges," he says. "For an expensive vacation with your family, I would certainly consider it."

Trip-cancellation/interruption package policies—a specific type of travel insurance that offers the most comprehensive protection—run about 4% to 8% of the total cost of the trip. Typically, they reimburse policyholders for loss of nonrefundable, prepaid travel expenses, including airfare, cruises, tours and hotels, resulting from cancellations due to illness, injury or a death in the family, or trips interrupted for specific reasons listed in the policy. Some policies exclude pre-existing medical conditions.

Source: MarketWatch

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