Best Trip Insurance Frequently Asked Questions

Yes most of our policies include Baggage loss, Trip Cancellation, and Emergency Repatriation.

Yes, most of our package policies provide coverage for trip cancellation due to a non-traveling family member's death or illness requiring you to stay home.

Trip cancellation provides coverage for "named peril" policies, meaning they will only cover you for a specific covered reason named in the policy. None of them provide coverage for "any reason" such as for a person's inability to get time off from work. Generally they cover cancellations due to health, weather, airline or cruise line bankruptcy, etc.

Many of our plans will offer coverage for "Terrorism". Trip cancellation coverage is generally considered to be a "named peril" type policy, meaning that only those perils that are named in the policy are covered. This includes terrorism. Each company however includes their own definition of terrorism.

If your leave is denied because of declared or undeclared war, all policies will exclude that reason. There are several companies that address military leave or being called to duty in one form or another: Access America, Travel Guard - Cruise, Tour & Travel plan, Travel Insured, TravelSafe and Travelex all have "perils" that touch on this.