From Pet to Marriage Insurance: Good Deals?  Exotic insurance
offers often aren't worth the price  August 25, 2009 RSS Feed
Print   • Comment (3)  We buy auto and health insurance without
thinking twice, but what about more exotic policies that insure
everything from marriage to pets to travel? Consumers are
usually much less familiar with these options, which makes them
difficult to evaluate. In general, such elective insurance
policies are expensive, since they insure a relatively small
pool of people who are at high risk of needing to rely on them.
We evaluated four optional insurance programs in order to answer
the question: Should you insure yourself against these risks?
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insurance. This type of policy isn't yet available, but at least
one company, Safeguard Guaranty Corp., expects to start offering
it early next year. The details are being worked out, but Chief
Executive John Logan says the company will sell policies that
pay out in the event