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Feb 20

Is Travel Medical Insurance A Waste Of Your Money?

Travel medical insurance is a kind of insurance that is linked to the coverage of the expenditures made to meet out the cost due to medical reasons. In other words, it can be said that these types of medical insurance policies will be covering the medical, surgical and dental emergencies experienced by individuals in various places. As a wise man, you need to always focus on how you are going to manage the expenditures that may occur as an emergency condition, during travel. Let us imagine that you have not taken this type of travel medical insurance policy, you are stunned to cough out fifty thousand US dollars from your own money for some emergency medical reasons, during the travel.

You get a great relief when your insurer settles your expenditure pertaining to such emergencies. Nobody can predict what will happen to us during the travel to many places. Hence, we need to be prepared in this regard, always. But as a consumer, let’s choose some insurance firms that can offer high rate as the settlement amount, when there are some medical reasons, during making of any travel to any place. Many firms may insist on different premium amounts to be paid pertaining to the travel medical insurance. Similarly, there are many firms that will reveal the linkage between age factor of an individual and the policy amount that is to be paid.

Some firms also make many advertisements with regard to the multi trip policies and link to the travel medical insurance. However, it is the individual’s choice to select the type of package in this insurance policies pertaining to the travel medical insurance. By selling direct to the consumers like you, some leading travel medical insurance firms are saving the consumers up to forty or fifty percent in commissions charged by other routinely functioning travel medical insurance firms.

Jan 27

Personal Accident Insurance – What you should know

CAMS offers a comprehensive Personal Accident Insurance scheme which is available to competitors, crew members and officials who may be injured as a result of an incident during a motor sport event in which they are participating. It is worthwhile however touching on the basics of the cover on offer and the manner in which those compensatory amounts identified may be able to be accessed. Firstly, it is important to identify who is covered under the policy. The policy provides benefits to drivers and co-drivers in any CAMS sanctioned event in which they are competing, irrespective of the type of event or the status, provided that a permit has been issued for that event.

This also includes CAMS authorized private practice and test sessions at race circuits and for practice activities in which a CAMS permit has been issued - for example, rally practice sessions. Likewise, members of pit crews and service crews are included in the policy. It is important for all pit and service crews to be registered with the event organizer before the commencement of the competition.

Competitors are registered through their completion of the entry form for the event. Insurance cover also extends to authorize officials of any event for which a CAMS permit has been issued. Once more, in order that all officials are registered, they must be either noted in the Supplementary or Further Regulations for an event or must be registered with the organizers and ’sign on’ before their duties for the event have commenced.