Travel insurance helps protect your travel investment and helps to provide emrgency assistance services should you need help while you travel. Travel insurance covers: unexpected costs such as having to cancel or interrupt your trip due to unexpected reasons, such as an illness of you, a family member, or a travel companion, death of a family member, severe weather, missed connections, strikes, default of travel supplier and other unexpected events that may arise before or during your trip. Depending on which plan you select, it can include trip cancellation and interruption, accident and sickness with assistance services, medical repatriation, baggage coverage, accident insurance, and many other benefits.