Even on vacation, there's no escaping Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. There are a variety of factors that can go wrong while traveling such as missing a connecting flight, damaging a rental vehicle or catching a cold. Not only are any one of those situations possible, they are likely, and each can seriously disrupt long-awaited plans, costing time and money. According to Cover-More, a travel insurance provider in Australia, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., the number of New Zealanders who missed connecting flights doubled in 2018. Furthermore, Cover-More experienced a 75% increase in rental car claims in 2018, just in New Zealand. Travel insurance helps protect vacationers and adventurers from the mishaps traveling can bring with coverage options for trip cancellations, medical emergencies, lost luggage and more. Luckily, travel insurance came to the rescue with the seven bizarre travel insurance claims Cover-More experienced in 2018, illustrated in the slideshow above, which truly prove that if something can go wrong, it just might. Related: |
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Heather A. Turner
Heather A. Turner is the managing editor of ALM's NU Property & Casualty Group. She can be reached at [email protected].
