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Scary Travel Insurance Stats
Expert Author: Patrick Chong | Category: Travel Insurance
Holiday insurance - for some people buying it is almost instinctive as soon as they book a trip, whereas others will inevitably leave it until the last minute...if they choose to buy it at all! It is easy to say “it’ll never happen to me” but the risk simply isn’t worth taking - cheap holiday insurance is so easy to get (and the cost of an uninsured disaster so high) that there really is no acceptable excuse.
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