A slip and fall on the stairs A Redpoint client was touring Amman, Jordan, with her husband when she fell down a set of stairs and her leg was in severe pain. Suspecting serious injury, her tour guide arranged for her to be taken to a local hospital and then contacted Redpoint, who were in […]
‘What To Do When Not Just Any Travel Insurance Will Do’ “Travel insurance is diversifying,” writes Christopher Elliott in Forbes. “While standard travel insurance can cover most normal vacation trips, there are outliers including luxury vacations, corporate travel, and adventure vacations that demand special coverage.” Elliott spoke with Cavalry’s Tom Bochnowski and Butterfield & Robinson‘s […]
Medical evacuation to Sydney A Redpoint Resolutions client, cruising on a yacht off of Indonesia, injured his spine in very choppy seas. He was tossed in the air and landed on the small of his back, causing a compression fracture in one of his lower vertebrae. The yacht motored into Bali to bring him to […]
Almost missed son’s wedding One of Redpoint’s Cavalry Travel Insurance clients and her sister were traveling through Scotland when the client began experiencing nausea, vomiting and severe acid reflux. Her condition prevented her from eating and even lying down to sleep. She was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow. To make matters worse, her son’s […]
Heart condition requires medical evacuation Redpoint Resolutions medically evacuated a 23-year-old woman from Montana to Utah due to a life-threatening heart condition. The university student was working a summer job in the Helena, Montana, area when she felt palpitations and an elevated heart rate. Doctors there recommended that she receive an ICD – an implantable […]
