Martin was Saved by Travel Insurance

There are a lot of injuries you can easily imagine happening during a trip to California. You could hurt your back while surfing, twist your ankle hiking through the redwoods or strain your neck looking at the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Fracturing your foot while playing hockey wouldn’t be very high on that list. And yet that’s what happened to Martin, of Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Fortunately, his fiancé Nina was there to drive him to the ER and call Manulife. He was advised to see an orthopedic surgeon, who took x-rays and deemed that Martin couldn’t travel without surgery. So a procedure was performed in California – all of which was paid for by Manulife.

Nina says she never travels without insurance. “Just for the peace of mind...to me it’s just a cost of your trip. You’ve got your budget for food, your budget for medical insurance.”

And she spoke from experience: Martin had strained his back while on vacation a year earlier, also requiring a Manulife Travel Insurance claim. She said dealing with Manulife “was the easiest thing that you could’ve done. I just told them what happened, where we were, and they were taking care of everything. I was shocked at how easy it was...Just the convenience of everything and not having to worry about it, it was phenomenal.”

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