'Travel insurance should always be an essential holiday purchase, and never a nice-to-have.”
Holidaymakers have been warned to make sure they have cover in place when they go away as figures reveal travel insurers dealt with a new claim every two minutes last year. According to analysis from the Association of British Insurers , 362,000 claims were dealt with in 2022, surging by 148 per cent compared with 2021.
Travellers are being reminded to take details of their insurer when they go abroad as the ABI highlighted several significant payouts made for emergency medical treatment. One traveller suffered a serious blood infection in Thailand which required intensive medical treatment and an air ambulance to return them to the UK.The travel insurer paid the total bill which came to £250,000.
Spain, the United States, Greece and France were the top overseas destinations in 2022 for people making medical claims on their travel insurance. The average travel insurance claim last year was the highest on the ABI’s records going back to 2004, at £973. The average emergency medical treatment claim was £1,750, also the highest on record.
Louise Clark, the ABI’s policy adviser, general insurance, said: “Most holidaymakers remember their travels for all the right reasons, but for a few it turns into the stuff of nightmares.
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