Leading insurance provider for travellers with pre-existing medical conditions, goodtogoinsurance.com, believes this vital element of the holiday is often overlooked by healthy travellers. Yet, if a member of a travelling party falls ill before the holiday starts due to a pre-existing condition, causing the trip to be cancelled, the other travellers may find it difficult to get reimbursement if they are insured separately.



“We therefore advise travellers to stick together and buy one travel insurance policy to cover the whole family, or group of friends says Iain Sykes, Managing Director of goodtogoinsurance.com. “If everyone is insured on the same policy, whether they have a medical condition or not, they would all be able to make a claim, in the event that it was deemed medically necessary to cancel or cut short the trip following another member of the party becoming ill.”



Goodtogoinsurance.com specialises in travel insurance for people living with a range of medical conditions – and cover can include friends and family travelling with them which will ensure that everyone in the party will be compensated if there’s an unexpected cancellation due to illness.





Iain Sykes concludes: “Everyone needs to declare their pre-existing medical conditions to make sure they have full cover for medical expenses. And those travelling in a group with someone with a pre-existing condition should ideally be insured on the same policy so that they are properly covered for cancellation and curtailment.”



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April 2011



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Notes to Editors



Goodtogoinsurance.com

Goodtogoinsurance.com is a specialist travel insurance provider, offering travel insurance cover to individuals, couples and families who may have difficulty obtaining cover elsewhere, either due to age or health record.



Goodtogoinsurance.com is supporting the Willow Foundation, a national charity, set up by Arsenal legend Bob Wilson and his wife Megs, which provides special days for seriously ill 16 to 40 year olds. 50p from every goodtogoinsurance.com policy sale goes straight to the charity.



Goodtogoinsurance.com is an appointed representative of Ancile Insurance Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.



If everyone is insured on the same policy, whether they have a medical condition or not, they would all be able to claim in the event that the trip had to be cut short or cancelled following another member of the party becoming ill, on the basis it was deemed medically necessary to cancel or curtail the trip