What to Ask

Travel insurance is not the foremost thing to think about when traveling, so we've put together a few articles to help you decipher what insurance companies are talking about.

Who pays a claim?

Across the Travel Insurance Compared website you will notice we pay a lot of attention to the underwriters of the insurance companies we examine. It’s important to know who the underwriter of your travel insurance policy might be for one simple reason:

Top 10 tips: CLAIMS

Making a claim is not the easiest process in the world. Both fraudulent and exaggerated claims (turning a $150 iPod shuffle into a $700 40gig iPod photo) have an inflationary effect on insurance policies and travel insurance companies have mechanisms in place to root out the legitimate claims from those who may be trying to cheat the system.

Credit cards. Good enough?

Some credit and charge cards offer cover comparable to regular travel insurance but others don’t. These policies work differently from normal travel insurance policies in that you’re automatically covered. However some require you to pay for all of your travel costs with your card, others part of your trip and others still may not cover domestic travel.

Am I covered?

From terrorism and bird flu to SARS and tsunami's, how do you know if you are covered?

Do I need travel insurance?

No traveller wants to think of the things that could go wrong while they’re travelling, especially during the excited phase before you leave on your trip. Unfortunately, things do and can go wrong.

The easy guide

Travel insurance. Boring huh? It is ... until you need it. Then you probably wish you'd paid closer attention to the detail.

How to choose

Not all policies are created equal ...