Don't leave home without it (Leading Edge Travel Insurance)

Member Name: Sweety-pie

Product:	Leading Edge Travel Insurance
Date:	25/10/01 (231 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good prices

Disadvantages: None

One of the cheapest travel insurance companies I have found on the Internet, www.leadedge.co.uk.

Company Background
Established 1997, Leading Edge Travel Insurance Services is the Sister Company of Worldwide Travel Insurance Services Ltd. Policies are underwritten by Lloyd?s of London.

Leading Edge offers online travel insurance, for:
one-trip- from 1 - 94 days
backpacker- from 2 - 18 months
multi-trip- up to 31 days each trip

Price examples:
~ 1 day for Europe - £4.00
~ 9 days for Europe - £10.00 Worldwide - £23.00
~ 17 days for Europe - £11.00 Worldwide - £25.00
~ 31 days for Europe - £17.00 Worldwide - £33.00

Leading Edge offers a fast simple service, if you like the price and the policy details meet your travel insurance criteria, buying the policy is just a matter of completing an online form. Once you have completed and submitted your details, you will a few minutes later receive an email containing, your travel insurance policy number, policy details, legal wording and ABI code of practice. If you wish to take the policy with you abroad, you just need to print a copy from the email. And because this procedure only takes a few minutes, they highly recommend it to last minute travellers as they can sell insurance right up to the minute of departure.

To be able to buy a policy from Leading Edge you must be able to receive the policy by e-mail or fax, so it is essential you provide the correct e-mail address.

My opinion:
I?ve used this company many times, without any problem. My recent purchase was for a one-day trip, to the cost of a whopping £4! My policy includes: Personal liability, catastrophe cover, legal expenses, loss of passport, personal money & baggage, personal accident, hospital benefit, emergency medical, repatriation and associated expenses. Although I have never needed to make a claim so I cannot comment on that side of their service.

Over
all:
I know a few people that have gone away without insurance, one needing hospital treatment, which ran into hundreds of pounds. Now I always buy some before I go abroad. And being such an online bargain hunter, this so far seems to be the cheapest price policies, for the most cover.

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