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Travel policy goes to the ends of the Earth.(travel insurance covers Ronald Shemenski airlift)(Brief Article)

Business Insurance, May, 2001 by Wojcik, Joanne

DENVER-The next time you see one of those machines in an airport selling travel accident insurance and wonder whether it's worth buying, you might stop and think about Dr. Ronald Shemenski. The perilous rescue of the ailing doctor from the South Pole on April 26, at the start of the Antarctic winter, was covered by two travel accident insurance policies-one that was provided as an employee benefit by Dr.

Shemenski's his employer and another that he purchased himself through his employer. Dr. Shemenski's employer, Denver-based Raytheon Polar Services, a unit of Lexington, Mass.-based Raytheon Co., provides business travel accident insurance to its employees through a group program underwritten by AIG Life, a unit of American International Group Inc. of New...

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