Letter From The President | Introducing InsureAssist

Posted on May 24, 2012

InsureAssist LogoFriends:

I would like to take a minute and introduce you to InsureAssist, a travel insurance provider that has a partnership with MedjetAssist.

For years we’ve had our members ask us, “Where can we buy travel insurance and is there a company you can recommend?”  Now there is: InsureAssist can satisfy all your travel insurance needs!

InsureAssist (www.insureassist.com) has teamed with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Companies, a leader in the travel insurance industry, and offers standard travel insurance protection– trip cancellation, trip interruption, lost and delayed luggage, trip delay, medical, dental and emergency evacuation among other products. Also, coming in a few weeks InsureAssist will be able to offer political, security and natural disaster coverage as well. We think you’ll be impressed with the depth and selection of options available.

For everyone who noticed ‘emergency evacuation’ and thought that’s what your Medjet membership provides, please allow me to explain the difference:

Your Medjet membership is a vital part of your everyday business or leisure travel needs. Medjet is the air-medical transport component of your travel protection program, meaning if you are hospitalized over 150 miles from home (domestically or internationally) and require in-patient hospitalization, your Medjet membership provides arrangement of medical transfer to the in-patient medical facility of your choice at no additional out of pocket cost. Medjet‘s transport service is not an insurance product but rather a benefit available to Medjet members who want the freedom to obtain medical assistance at the in-patient medical facility of choice.

Emergency evacuation is what gets you to the hospital in the event of injury or accident when traveling remotely. For instance, if you are on a cruise and become ill during sailing, your InsureAssist travel insurance evacuation coverage is the mechanism that will actually get you to shore and to in-patient status at a local medical facility. At that point your Medjet membership clicks into effect. This is also for adventure travel and endeavors of the like that actually take you away from land and population base. You will need some type of evacuation insurance protection to get you to a local in-patient medical facility for Medjet to take over and transport you to the hospital of your choice. Of course most of the time evacuation coverage won’t come into play except for the off-shore, remote and adventure travel that takes you away from mainland facilities.

All of us hope this never happens but we know from our day to day experience that accidents do occur while our members are away from home. And your Medjet card should be a staple of all your travel because you never know when and where the unexpected might happen in everyday activity whether traveling in the United States or abroad.

InsureAssist is designed for that particular journey and vacation when you want to protect not only the pre-trip cost but make sure all the incidentals are covered including the actual expense of the trip, assuring all carrier connections are in place, your luggage gets where you are going, emergency evacuation and right down to coverage of medical costs in foreign lands (something not many people readily consider).

Keep your Medjet (www.medjet.com) protection in play at all times. Consider InsureAssist (www.insureassist.com or 1-877-591-8739) when that extra layer of personal and financial travel insurance protection needs to be in place for that special journey!

Safe travels.

Regards,

Roy Berger
President/CEO
MedjetAssist