Thousands of Brits have invalid travel insurance policies
A major supermarket has just released research to show that hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers travel abroad each year with invalid travel insurance policies. The reason is people’s reluctance to advise their insurers about pre-existing medical conditions.
The research claims that as many as 245,000 people traveled last year without telling their insurance providers about chronic back pain and 110,000 people failed to notify respiratory problems. If you have a recurrence of an existing medical problem on holiday you will probably not be covered unless your insurers were notified in advance and agreed.
Many people were apparently too embarrassed to talk about their medical conditions to a travel insurance company and others did not realize that their problem was relevant to their insurance.
It is always worth being open and honest when obtaining holiday insurance quotations. You may find that a pre-existing problem can be covered much more easily than you thought.
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