Advice on purchasing international medical insurance online

Providers of medical insurance report an increasing proportion of sales online. Insurers like it. It saves back-office time. For customers, there’s the attraction of instant and easy cover. Insurance kicks in now. Job done.

However, buying insurance of any type is trickier than buying, say, a washing machine. And international medical insurance is more complex than domestic insurance. You can fall into the trap of buying cover from a respectable company only to find, as you arrive at immigration in Abu Dhabi, that your plan is not recognised. You are on the next flight home. Read Article