Archive for January, 2012
Travel Alert – Tunisia
Squaremouth recommends travel insurance for all your overseas trips. The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for unrest in Tunisia. The security situation in most tourist and business centers remains calm. However, spontaneous and unpredictable events, such as work stoppages and demonstrations still occur, a state of emergency remains in force, and curfews can [...]
Learning to Be Lean
As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling. With about one in three children in the United States obese or overweight, according to government statistics, the need for such programs [...]
International Student Insurance for Indians
Every year thousands of Indian students visit foreign countries to pursue their higher education. Health care costs in foreign countries are never cheap and most of the universities have mandated student medical insurance coverage for International students. There are many insurers in India who have designed medical insurance coverage for Indian students visiting abroad. A [...]
Travel Warning – Philippines
Squaremouth recommends travel insurance for all your overseas trips. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of terrorist activity in the Philippines. While most of the recent incidents of terror have occurred on the island of Mindanao and in the Sulu Archipelago, U.S. citizens are reminded that terrorist attacks could be indiscriminate and could [...]