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Travel Insurance

All New Sorts of Protection

October 17, 2006 at 12:39 PM | 0 Comments

When we were your age, we had to walk two miles and bike up a hill to get travel insurance. Even then, we were only covered for things like getting our leg bitten off by a wolverine. The kids are crazy these days, though, and things are changing in the insurance industry.

Cancel-for-any-cause policies are becoming more popular. These plans typically allow you to get more of your money back and with shorter advance notice, depending on the company. That means that you need not have a wolverine dilemma to cancel--perhaps you just got in a fight with your travel buddy and no longer want to spend a week cooped up together. Then again, with a sample $2000 trip for two, you could end up parting with as much as $563 if disaster strikes.

The best new policy, however, has got to be Travel Guard's Tee, Tour & Travel package. Yeah yeah, it'll cover you if your game gets rained out, but it'll also buy you $250 worth of drinks if you hit a hole in one. Now, if that covers mini-golf, we are so sold it ain't even funny.

[Photo: Pete Hindle]

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