Posted 3/6/09 by M. Muntalip

Easter holiday is around the corner. Many people will be traveling this Easter as it is a great time to get away with friends and family, and not to mention, escape from a huge pile of office workloads. But it doesn’t matter if you are away for a day or a month, accidents and sicknesses can strike at any time, without warning. Plus, currently we are living in a recessions, when everything is expensive. Without proper travel insurance, you will suffer greatly. There are many travel medical insurance choices out there that you can pick. One choice is MultiNational Underwriters. They offer low prices and will cover many of your international vacation medical protection needs. The good thing is the Free international travel medical quote. Obtaining travel insurance should be your first priority when you book the Easter vacation. Now you can go almost anywhere you want to go.

Posted 3/2/09 by C. Jalleh

With many airlines offering discounted travel packages, I read of more and more families travelling together, with kids in tow :-) 

I remember the time I had to make a business trip with my 9-month-old baby.

Besides worrying about his water, food and medicines, I was most concerned about our safety. The best advice our travel agent gave us was to buy international travel insurance.

Although the airlines provided some travel medical insurance, you’ll find that your medical and life insurance policies (unless stated specifically) provide coverage for you while you’re in your home country ONLY.

MultiNational Underwriters (www.mnui.com) provides international coverage (for short-term and long-term trips) for lost baggage, medical treatment and most importantly, emergency evacuations (which includes acts of terrorism, political evacuation, and complications of pregnancy).

Insured by Lloyd’s, the world’s largest and oldest insurance, the Atlas series (for US and non-US citizens) sounds useful especially as the coverage provides assistance with:
a) emergency cash transfers;
b) emergency message relays to family, friends and co-workers;
c) a round-trip (air/ground) ticket for a family member to the hospital where you’re hospitalized and
d) return of minor children - in case you’re hospitalized and your child is left unattended (e.g. you’re in a coma or in the ICU) for more than 3 days, they can arrange for your child to be flown back to the airport terminal of your home country.

While the above scenario sounds scary, as a frequent traveler, I can assure you that ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN when you are on travel.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry. If you’re travelling anytime soon, how about getting a free international medical insurance quote? At least you’ll have an idea how much international travel insurance would cost.

Don’t be “penny wise, pound foolish” - with travel insurance, you can then really sit back and relax your family holiday.

Have a happy day!

Posted 1/30/09 by J. Halsted

One of my girlfriends went to Asia recently (a volunteer vacation that took her into Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia & the Philippines, and maybe a couple more countries). She had been saving quite a while to do this and planned to spend a few months over there.

During the first week of her trip she had an appendicitis attack and had to have immediate surgery. She said that she was very lucky for two reasons: 1) She was in a major city when it happened and 2) she had purchased international travel medical insurance.

While I may take all I can with me to keep us safe when we travel I certainly don’t plan for emergency medical care, mostly because we are healthy. But so was she. This has made me rethink our travel a bit and look into travel insurance a bit more closely.

I found this site for a Free International Medical Insurance Quote. I input all the info requested and got an instant quote for Doug & I (children under 9 are free) It was not a lot of money for the peace of mind it brings.

Of course you want to read up on travel insurance yourself and see if it is worth it for you, personally. MultiNational Underwriters (www.mnui.com) has lots of information to help you decide.

Posted 1/25/09 by Debbie Brewer

This past week I was hospitalized with pneumonia.  It was totally unexpected and I am still not feeling up to par.  Thankfully I was at home and not traveling when I came down with it.  The cost of an unexpected illness while traveling can be extremely high.  If you’re traveling overseas, those costs can skyrocket even higher.

I have always recommended you get travel insurance to protect the investment of your trip.  Now I am recommending you also get travel insurance for your health.  That’s right!  You can buy health insurance to protect you while traveling.  MultiNational Underwriters (MNU) is a US based company that allows you to purchase health insurance for as little as $1 per day.  You choose your deductible, amount of coverage, and dates you want to be covered.  MNU will do the rest.  No, they can’t guarantee you won’t get sick while you are on vacation or business.  What they can do is provide you peace of mind knowing that if you do fall ill, it won’t bankrupt you.  You are covered. 

Have a graduate student who is planning time abroad after graduation?  MNU has coverage for them too. 

Check out their website (www.mnui.com) before your next trip overseas.  They offer 24 hour support – Protect yourself with health insurance for travelers.  Free travel medical insurance quote.

Posted 1/21/09 by David Hutasoit

People nowadays are relatively well-educated about the importance of health, life, and travel insurance. They realize that insurance is very useful to protect them when certain bad things happen. The protection usually comes in the form of money to cover all the harmful things. However, not many people understand that most of this insurance does not cover international travel insurance.

This situation is very miserable. Every year lots of travelers are having a trip without international travel medical/health protection. They do not recognize that their domestic insurance will not cover any medical emergency outside their home country. If you feel that you are part of them, then you are now in the right track to read this article. You can get a free international travel medical insurance quote from MultiNational Underwriters (MNU), a leader in the field of international medical insurance.

MNU offers a complete portfolio of health and life insurance products to customers in over 130 countries. Some of their best products are “The Atlas Series”, “Student Secure”, “Trip Cancellation Series”, and many more. Get your self protected world wide with only $1 per day. Too see further their products’ detail you can click their friendly website at www.mnui.com.

Posted 10/22/08 by Andrew Marane

I travel overseas quite a bit, some for work and some for business. It is important to remember that your health insurance that you have in the U.S. rarely covers you if you need medical treatment outside the country.

I found this out on a trip to the Philippines where I woke up with a bad stomach ache. Fortunately the hotel clinic was able to handle it because I knew the hospitals require payment before you can check out and if it were serious it could have been quite expensive. It would have been so much easier to check with www.mnui.com before I went on my trip to ensure I was covered.

Before you travel overseas, check with your health insurance provider and if they don’t cover you, which most don’t, Click here for a FREE travel insurance quote.

It is better to make sure you are covered when you travel overseas and it will give you some piece of mind.

Posted 10/23/08 by IDOGCOW

With the Dollar is coming back in value against the Euro and as we approach the end of the year, many people’s thoughts are turning (back) to international travel. In the rush to get on a plane and see (or is that flee) our far flung friends and family one thing that may slip off the to-do list is to check the level, if any, of medical coverage you take with you on holiday. Does your health insurance plan cover you and your family should a medical emergency arise? Perhaps you should examine international travel insurance.
At mnui.com they offer same-day coverage for these trips for as little as $1 per day, and that even includes emergency medical evacuation coverage. Coverage that can be provide real peace of mind, especially when traveling in areas with questionable medical facilities or where your language skills are not up to the level of a local.
You have nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain so why not give it a look. Click here for a FREE travel insurance quote.
Even if nothing goes wrong, you’ll be more relaxed and can enjoy your time abroad. Happy traveling!

When you’ve worked for a company that requires you and your team of engineers to travel around the world as much as my mine did, you know you need to look out for your people.  This was what happened when I was put in charge of all travel arrangements for my boss, the engineers and also the sales associates in the Spanish Company I had worked for. Affordable international coverage, costing as little as $1 a day per person, was definitely the best thing I learned about and took care of whenever we traveled.

We were in Vietnam sometime in 1995 and there were riots because a civil war had started.  Even though we were told that we were safe in the hotel, there was one afternoon in which we were hurriedly evacuated from the hotel due to more unrest in the country.  In the midst of all the turmoil I came down with a high fever and because of my travel insurance and their co-ordination with the hospital there, I was evacuated from Vietnam by helicopter, paid by the insurance company.  Whether you are traveling for vacation or business, never leave home without Travel Health Insurance from www.mnui.com, you can never be too sure about tomorrow and you need to be prepared.

Posted 10/31/2008 by Julai

I’m about to sleep coz it’s almost 2am here already. But I just read in a site (www.mnui.com) about the importance of travel health insurance or international travel insurance in general, so I’ll write my thoughts about it before finally going to bed. Indeed, travel insurance is very important since we can’t really predict the situations or happenings that will occur during our travel, especially with our health, so we better be safe and be insured. During my work days in Denmark and Norway, my hostfamilies availed a health insurance for me, so I can avail of free check-up and other health privileges.

Now that I am already here in Spain, I don’t have a health insurance yet. But once my papers are ok, then my employers will also start processing my health insurance. I am also excited to have it coz I want to avail of the free check-up since I am feeling something with my body lately. So, I need to visit a doctor to have a health check. If you are interested too,then just Click here for a FREE international health insurance quote.

Posted 10/30/2008 by Babak

Back in SA. Rouzeh was there to welcome me at the airport, after a very long flight, which was nice. She’s staying in Pretoria, close to her office, but I’m, at least for now, staying with Christo, in Johannesburg. Jo’burg, after all, is where it’s at.
The weather is on the warm side, but not too hot, with the gentle breeze that’s blowing most of the day. I signed a three month contract for a project with SAfAIDS, building an online contact database.

I’m, temporarily, renting a car with rent-a-wreck. It’s not too expensive and the car is not too close to being a proper wreck, though fairly close, and it does give me the freedom you need in Gauteng. Things are just too far apart, and there’s practically no public transport.

However, the brakes on the car are not all that great, which made me think of medical insurances while abroad.
I’m sort of insured, but it’s a gray area, as I’m out of my home country for such long stretches at a time. Particular my, supposedly continuous, ABNAMRO travel insurance doesn’t like that.
I’ve been very lucky over the years and never really needed any medical attention, while abroad. One minor exception is when I badly twisted an ankle in late 2006, I think it was. Also in Johannesburg. I visited a doctor and got some physiotherapy. However, because it was regular medical attention, no emergency evac or whatnot, I could submit the expenses to my regular medical insurance. Though, in the end, I didn’t as the combined expenses were less than the discount I would get when not claiming anything.

But hoping or expecting to be lucky is a very bad insurance policy. In the back of my mind, I’ve considered for a long time to get one of those international continuous travel insurances. Mighty convenient, but, so I heard, also quite pricey. Recently, one that was brought to my attention was a package from MultiNational Underwriters (they can give you a free international travel insurance quote). They’ve got a host of packages. For example, I checked their international medical insurance package, which was cheaper than I expected, though not as cheap as I would hope, at around 100 dollars per month.
A quote for their travel insurance package, for one year, came in at 732 dollars, which is a reasonable deal, I think.

For my regular Dutch medical insurance, I pay around 120 euros per month, so if the coverage with MultiNational underwriters is the same or similar, just switching to them for this would already be financially attractive.