If you are traveling abroad this year, make sure that you purchase adequate travel insurance protection for your nanny if she is vacationing with your family abroad. Taking your nanny on your trip is no longer something that only the rich do. Many partent are taking their nanny on trips to help take care of small [...]

Many travel insurance customers were worried with the recent financial troubles associated with American International Group (AIG) could mean that their travel insurance purchase from AIG Travel Guard could become worthless if AIG collapsed. The recent announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has agreed to provide a loan of up to $85 [...]

Almost 85,000 UK holiday makers and many vacationers from other countries were recently stranded  overseas because of the collapse of one of the UK’s largest tour operators. The XL Leisure Group had to ground its large fleet of aircraft because they failed to secure a financial rescue package. On September 12th, 2008, several executives were [...]

The best advice that Santa can give you if you are planning on going across the boarder to shop for Christmas gifts this year is to remember to purchase travel insurance before you go. Accidents and illnesses can happen just as often on a short trip as a long one. More and more Americans each [...]

A recent study by Absolute Fraud Management (AFM) showed a 13% increase in potentialy fraudulent motor claims due to the credit crunch may be a warning to travel insurance carriers that suspicious claims may be on the rise for them as well. Most suspicous claims will involve trip cancellation policies where people realise that the [...]

It has recently been reported that travel insurance claims are most expensive in Mexico, costing an average of approximately $5,300 USD.  This illustrates the need for getting travel insurance for Mexico. The next most expensive country for travel insurance claims was the United States. One would expect that a claim in the United States would [...]

Travel Insurance Mexico has been launched by TFG Global Insurance Solutions Ltd. The new site is aimed at visitors to Mexico, long term expatriates living in Mexico and also Mexican nationals who travel abroad, esepcially to the United States. The web site has a great fresh and easy to use navigation. The new site features [...]

Zoom airlines has been recently grounded due to rising fuel costs. Zoom is yet another victim of high oil prices. Zoom filed for bankruptcy citing “exceptionally difficult trading conditions which have affected all airlines over the last 12 months.” They had tried to secure additional financing to keep the airline aloft, but those efforts failed. [...]

A new school year in the United States is upon us and students from around the globe will be visting the USA to attend English as a Second Language (ESL) schools in the USA. What many may now know is that getting sick or injured in the United States is a very exepensive proposition. Short term [...]

The Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1st and will end November 30th. Many travelers may be disappointed if they book a trip to the United States or Carribean and encounter a violent storm or hurricane instead of nice sunny beaches. Many people don’t realize that hurricane season starts in June and rarely check for severe [...]