Comments on: Prime Travel Protection trustee: We’ll pay claims “to the greatest possible extent”

By: Ronda

Ronda — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:46:36 +0000

its so wonderful to hear that as far as ethics are concerned this “travel assurance” company don’t give two hoots. and then have the nerve to act like they’re the victims. the poeple who buy travel insurance are a majority of elderly people and people who are ill. they need to have the garentee that if for whatever reason they can’t take the trip they’ve booked they will at least get the money they put towards that trip. these are people who have absolutly no extra money.
i sincerely hope that these frauds are taken to court and punished to the full extent of the law.
and as mr. baxter said, maddoff is probably lonely. and i’m sure the world would be more than happy to deliver him a fraud to be his roommate.

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[...] a trustee claiming to represent the three bankrupt insurance companies, holders of approved claims were assured that they’d be paid to “the greatest possible extent” over the next three [...]

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By: Tim Sheline

Tim Sheline — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:20:55 +0000

The blogs are nice, but is there anyone out there who can lead us towards legal action? Has the AG of Florida been contacted? It seems to me the companies that used Traveler Protection Services, Inc. are within Florida and some legal action from the state of Florida can be started, class action or otherwise.

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:09:07 +0000

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By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:29:02 +0000

My mother took insurance through Legendary Journey travel agency back in April 2008. We were still fighting this claim with Travel Protection Services. We were never informed they went bankrupt. I found this blog when I googled the name. My mother is 77 year old woman who used her life savings to book this cruise – she took ill and could not go with her sister and brother in-law (all booked together, they still went). Now she is out $2500.00. I retained a lawyer. I do think Legendary Journey should be assisting my mother in getting her refund, they are the ones that sold her this insurance. Anyone have advice?

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:30:01 +0000

I received a letter dated 2/23/09 from Prime Travel Protection, inc. It addresses a) Holders of approved claims for contracts issued by traveler Protection Svcs.
b) Holders of approved claims for contracts issued by Prime Travel Protection.
It states that Prime travel and Universal Assurance Group have terminated active business operation as of 1/26/09 and no new contracts have been issued. It states that if you’ve been approved for payment, you’ll be paid over 3 yrs. If you haven’t been approved as of yet, you will be paid over 5 yrs. It also states that jerry Watson has committed to make a series of capital contributions over a period of 60 mos. It is signed by the Counsel for Prime Travel Protection, Inc/ Universal Assurance Group, LTD/ Traveler Protection Svcs.
I think this is just a ruse so we’ll keep our mouths shut.

By: Harry Baxter

Harry Baxter — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:42:39 +0000

I understand that Bernie Madoff may be looking for a roommate.

By: Hamilton

Hamilton — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:38:59 +0000

Responding to Chris Elliot’s question (March 3 at 10:00 a.m.) the answer is yes. Nothiing is said in the notice about bankruptcy and to cease “active business operations” does not mean they cannot be restarted at any time. Mr. Watson apparently wants it to appear to be written by a bankruptcy trustee in much the same way as he wanted his “protection plans” to be mistaken for insurance.

After my wife and I were swindled by one of his “insurance” policies (clearly stated to be insurance by the agent, Anchors Away) I wrote a letter to the N.C. Dept. of Justice. Just the other day I received from them a copy of a letter Mr. Watson sent them in response. He writes that he takes offense to my statements about his operation.and intends to “pursue with legal action if necessary.” To this end he confides that he has already met with a Mr. Dorman, who it would appear is some sort of attorney, although he doesn’t actually call him that. The way things appear to be means a lot to Mr. Watson.

In the same letter he states, and I quote him verbatim: ” A letter from the treating physician is insufficient evidence to properly adjudicate a claim. Medical records cannot be altered and are a correct statement of fact.” The problem is that he apparently has his own medical experts who are better than the “treating physician” when it comes to determining just what the facts are. (See his conversation with Chris Elliot,) If the truth were known, these experts are probably he and his wife going over the claims together.

Frankly, I think the man”s not right in the head. Maybe we can have him put away somewhere–a place where he can get some rest.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:46:04 +0000

@Ben99

Sorry for the typo above…I meant to write, Don’t expect the agents to acknowledge anything. As far was the law related to underwriting – if the insurance company is authorized to operate in a particular state by licensure, they will have an underwriter. Stew Carrier of Legendary Journeys wrote on this blog that PTP was underwritten by MaxBermuda. Max Bermuda is a legitimate company and has never had any relationship with PTP. How do I know? I called them and asked. Access America is also a legitimate company. I believe Legendary Journeys began using Access America when they realized that PTP was an illegal entity. Of course, they also sold their clients Trip Assured’s illegal policies – I guess they didn’t learn their lesson. As far as Ceila is concerned…when I called PTP last summer they told me Ceila was a company somewhere in the South Pacific!