All the headlines from our Travel Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2007 // A report from the UK’s Treasury Department, which calls for more regulation and control over travel insurance sold through tour operators and travel agents, has brought a response from the Association of British...
Jan 30 2007 // Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco kicked off a three-day insurance outreach mission Jan. 29 in San Francisco, part of her continuing efforts to bring affordable insurance home to Louisiana, the governor’s...
Jan 8 2007 // Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in...
Jan 2 2007 // Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in...
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...
Nov 22 2006 // Higher prices for hotel rooms, rental cars and airfares will not keep families home this Thanksgiving. AAA Chicago estimates 38.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a 2.7 percent...
Sep 17 2006 // Ethics panel can’t take up complaints over travel insurance Received by Newsfinder from AP Sep 14, 2006 12:17 Eastern Time NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Consumers want the state’s new Ethics Commission to investigate...
Sep 10 2006 // Tennessee regulators ordered a Crossville-based travel firm already cited by three other states to stop selling trip interruption or cancellation benefits without an insurance license.Tennessee’s cease-and-desist...
Sep 1 2006 // The M.H. Ross Co., Northride, Calif., has announced that as of March 1, 2007, the firm’s travel insurance policies will be underwritten by Old Republic Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Old Republic International Corp.....
Aug 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued an emergency cease and desist order against Trip Assured Inc., which has been selling travel insurance in Texas without a license.Trip Assured, based in Crossville, Tenn.,...
Jul 14 2006 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. has introduced the “Bell Endorsement,” which provides to 10 additional coverages for organizations and individuals at no additional charge. The coverages...
Jul 10 2006 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, and Travel Professionals Insurance Network (TPIN), a service of MPP Co. Inc., have partnered to offer a new travel professionals errors and...
Jun 27 2006 // Independent agents that sell travel insurance will be interested in the outcome of Florida’s Freedom to Travel Bill, HB299, but the Travel Assist Network, asked for clarity in a debate about the differences between...
May 11 2006 // ACE European Group announced the launch of businessclass premier, described as “a new package of bespoke accident, health and travel insurance, services and risk consultancy, specifically for large corporate...
Apr 14 2006 // Bond insurers had an interesting 2005, dealing with the ratings implications of natural disasters, airline and auto parts manufacturer bankruptcies, Securities and Exchange Commission and attorney general investigations,...
Mar 20 2006 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary company is acquiring Travel Guard International, a national provider of travel insurance programs and emergency travel assistance, from the...
Mar 16 2006 // The Florida Cabinet gave its approval today for the Office of Insurance Regulation to conduct a public hearing to allow public input for a rule prohibiting discrimination by life insurers based on a person’s past or...
Jan 24 2006 // Specialty Global Insurance is launching a nationwide Travel Agents E&O program. The new program is designed for travel agents and tour operators with gross written receipts of $5,000,000 or more. Specialty Global...
Dec 7 2005 // Tom Maze regularly travels the interstate between Ames and the Twin Cities. So he knows when it’s a good idea to delay a trip until the snow stops and the plows clear a path.He also knows the National Academy of...