My first question is, how far in advance do we need to purchase our trip insurance? We have plane tickets for 2 for August 6, 2008 from LAX. I will have more questions later but first just need to know how far in advance we must purchase trip insurance. Thanks, Madelyn

Hi Madelyn, You can get your trip insurance anytime. I can only think of one reason to get a plan before you make your first payment on your trip: That’s if your next birthday happens before you make your first payment and that birthday pushes you into a more expensive age bracket.

Other than that unlikely possibility, there are deadlines to getting your trip insurance if you need pre-existing conditions’ coverage, so you might want to review this page:
http://www.tripinsurancestore.com/3/pre-existing.shtml