All the headlines from our Travel Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 30 2021 // Business travelers are eager to travel again for work and life, but most remain concerned at the same time about contracting COVID-19 and favor extra precautions.They are also concerned that their lack of travel has hurt...
Apr 23 2021 // The U.S. inland marine insurance segment experienced a “significant downturn in profitability” in 2020, with its loss ratio deteriorating by nearly 16 percentage points amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...
Mar 23 2021 // Allianz Partners, a travel insurance and assistance company, has added enhancements to its travel insurance products that may provide coverage to customers who become ill with COVID-19 or a future epidemic, are...
Mar 15 2021 // Blink Parametric, the Cork, Ireland-based insurtech, has announced a major expansion of its flight disruption insurance platform in Central & Latin America, scheduled for launch this month.The partnership between Blink...
Mar 8 2021 // COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the...
Jan 27 2021 // The airline industry has called on the World Health Organization to rule it’s safe for people to fly without quarantining once they’ve had a coronavirus vaccine.Acknowledgement of that principle from the United...
Dec 30 2020 // LONDON (AP) – So far, the large majority of British and EU citizens have not felt the realities of Brexit. Though the UK left the European Union on Jan. 31, it follows the bloc’s rules until the end of this year as...
Nov 25 2020 // U.S. websites have seen a surge in travelers seeking expensive ironclad insurance this Thanksgiving, as Americans desperate to break the monotony of a year spent at home look to cover themselves against coronavirus-related...
Nov 24 2020 // Global airline lobby IATA is working on a mobile app that will help travelers demonstrate their coronavirus-free status, joining a push to introduce so-called COVID passports to speed up the revival of international...
Oct 20 2020 // The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday issued a “strong recommendation” that all passengers and employees on airplanes, trains, subways, buses, taxis and ride-share vehicles should wear...
Sep 16 2020 // Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Group will restore some coverage for coronavirus-related trip interruptions in a new travel insurance policy that also includes COVID-19 in its emergency medical coverage.The policy will...
Aug 6 2020 // DARAG Group Ltd., the Malta-based legacy acquirer, announced the acquisition of Arisa Assurances SA, an automobile and travel insurance company based in Luxembourg.The transaction will be conducted through DARAG’s...
Aug 5 2020 // Insurer American International Group Inc. racked up $730 million in COVID-19-related losses during the first half of the year, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday.The pandemic is a “formidable and ongoing...
Jul 21 2020 // Travel insurance provider battleface announced a new COVID-19 travel insurance package. The new policy will give travelers the peace of mind they have been looking for to venture out safely, including to countries...
Jul 8 2020 // Generali’s P&C unit Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) Iberia & LatAm has developed a new system for remote facility inspection to address the consequences of COVID-19 and to provide value-added...
Jun 22 2020 // Saga has refunded 44 million pounds ($54.45 million) of advance payments to customers whose travel was interrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, the British over-50s holidays and insurance specialist said on Monday.The...
Jun 9 2020 // Travel insurance provider Trawick International has added Bailey Foster to the Trawick International team. Foster has assumed the role of vice president for Trip Insurance. Foster has more than two decades of insurance...
Jun 5 2020 // No matter where you work in the property/casualty insurance industry, your experience is important.How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting you now? Going forward? What do you expect to change? When will you be ready to...
Jun 4 2020 // In the new reality of COVID-19, some Americans may still be willing to travel abroad – but they’re going to make sure they’re insured up to the hilt.U.S. travel insurers are seeing a surge in demand for...
Jun 3 2020 // Hawaii Gov. David Ige said that starting on June 16, he will lift the 14-day quarantine for people traveling between the state’s islands that he instituted to control the spread of the coronavirus.A separate 14-day...