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Sat 03 Mar 2010Uninsured travellers 'risk financial ruin'
TRAVEL COSTS:TRAVELLERS HAVE been warned about “recklessly” travelling to the US without medical insurance. Sixteen per cent of all travellers, and 5 per cent of those heading to the US, go abroad without taking out travel insurance, according to a survey by AA Travel Insurance.
The company claims this amounts to a major gamble by holidaymakers. “If people were aware of the risks that they are taking, in some cases risking financial ruin for a family, they simply would not risk it,” says AA policy director Conor Faughnan.
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