Tips and Updates about Travel Health Insurance > Accident in the U.S. leaves Manitoba snowbirds with $12K bill
by Danton Unger, CTV News, posted on 10:35 AM, August 9, 2023
THIA Executive Director Will McAleer emphasizes the importance of understanding your travel health insurance coverage in this piece about a Winnipeg couple who must pay out of pocket for surgery performed in the U.S.
What started as a simple accident has ended up costing a pair of Manitoba snowbirds thousands of dollars.
Aage Schleikjar and Yvonne Fostey spend their winters at their vacation home in Arizona – but this past December while doing some landscaping, the vacation took a turn for the worse.
"I climbed that ladder and I started pruning and the ladder gave out on me," Schleikjar said. "I managed to grab a branch from the tree, and I was hanging there and then I felt something tearing in my shoulder."
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