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Buying travel insurance can make a trip feel safer, but the policy isn’t a blank check for every problem away from home.

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The U.S. military operation in Venezuela to extract the nation's leader, Nicolás Maduro, exposed potentially surprising coverage gaps for travel insurance. Insurers set different exclusions for travel ...

Russia’s plague scare puts travel insurance in focus. Treatment may be covered, but quarantine and cancellation claims depend ...

“If you wait until after a strike or major travel event has been announced, you would likely not be covered for cancellations ...