Travel Insurance for Cameras and Camera Equipment

Question from jorphotography on Twitter

jorphotography: Any recommendations for #TravelInsurance to #Thailand that includes #camera gear? #photography #insurance

Squaremouth’s Response

Most travel insurance policies provide coverage for cameras and related equipment, however, most policies have a specific limit on how much will be reimbursed for those items.

CSA Travel Protection and HTH Worldwide are two travel insurance providers that do not have a specific item limit for cameras. P

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Tags: Camera, Camera Equipment   Posted in Insurance Advice

LV= makes speed camera / accident link

New research from LV= suggests motorists behave erratically when confronted with speed cameras, typically slamming on the brakes or looking at the speedometer as soon as a camera comes into view.

Eighty-one per cent of respondents to the insurer’s survey admitted to instantly looking at their speedometers, instead of the road, on detecting a speed camera and one in twenty admitted to braking suddenly, risking losing control of their vehicle or a rear-end shunt.

The insurer estimates that at least 28,000 road accidents have been triggered by the cameras since 2001 and nearly one in three motorists questioned said they had witnessed an accident or near miss as a result of other drivers’ erratic behaviour when faced with one of the cameras.

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Tags: Camera, Speed Camera   Posted in Car Insurance Online