Travel insurance has become somewhat of a boom industry since 9/11. The U.S. Travel Insurance Association (USTIA) said that nearly 120 million people were covered by various types of travel insurance in 2008, a growth of more than 35 percent since 2006. Do you need this coverage?

The USTIA survey found that trip cancellation/trip interruption coverage accounted for 90 percent of travel insurance sales... [543 word article, March 2010]