Ingle International

Travel

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Ingle International offers flexible products and benefits, with 24-hour emergency assistance services.

We can also help insure people with complex medical conditions or unique requirements. With a travel insurance plan designed to suit your needs, you can travel with confidence and enjoy your trip with peace of mind.

Travelling Canadians

Travelling Canadians often are not aware of the high costs of medical treatment and hospitalization outside their province or territory of residence, and provincial government health care plans only cover a small portion of the cost. Travel insurance provides the protection you need for emergency medical situations while you are out of the province or out of the country.

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Visitors to Canada

Visitors to Canada health insurance is important if you are a visitor, a new immigrant, or a Canadian returning from a long stay abroad. A hospital stay in Canada can cost a non-resident over $3,000.00 per day, and a doctors’ visit over $300.00. Visitors to Canada insurance will cover hospital charges, physicians’ fees, prescriptions and more in the case of a covered medical emergency.

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International Students

Ingle International provides students with the protection they need while studying in Canada, the USA or anywhere in the world at the best rates available. We sell international and domestic student insurance for students from anywhere in the world studying anywhere in the world.

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Expatriates

Canadians who are planning to live abroad long-term will not be covered by their government or regular health insurance plan. Therefore, they will need a specific kind of travel medical coverage. Expatriate health insurance plan is specially designed for people who are no longer covered under a basic health insurance plan, or individuals who are awaiting insurance coverage in their destination country.

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International Travel

When you travel overseas, your domestic health care may not provide adequate coverage for emergencies that could take place on your trip. International travel insurance is designed to cover anyone going anywhere. These plans provide 24/7 emergency assistance and coverage for hospitalizations, doctors’ visits, prescription medications and more.

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Snowbirds

If you’re a Canadian travelling south this winter, make sure you have the right travel insurance coverage. Ingle represents many of the major travel insurance providers, so you don’t have to shop around for different quotes. We’ll do the work for you and find the product that best suits your needs. Let us help you make sure you have the facts about your insurance policy and any pre-existing condition exclusions.

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Special Risk

If you’re working or traveling in a dangerous part of the world, or engaged in dangerous or professional sports, regular travel or health insurance will not provide the coverage that you need. This is why it’s vital to purchase supplementary coverage, custom-underwritten to cover the risks you will be facing. We offer tailor-made coverage for journalists, sports teams, NGO or aid workers, and anyone else whose insurance needs are “outside the box” of regular travel insurance products.

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International Student Groups

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The Ingle group of companies has been specializing in health and travel insurance products since 1946. Ingle International was created by insurance and financial industry professionals with a great deal of experience in designing, developing and marketing student health, life, travel, property & casualty and investment products in North America and worldwide.

Ingle is an expert in international student health insurance and recognizes that the international education sector is important for Canada not only financially, but culturally and socially. We support this burgeoning sector by sponsoring a variety of organizations, conferences and events throughout the year. We have formal and lasting relationships with some of Canada’s largest school boards, private schools, colleges and universities, and look forward to exciting new opportunities.

We can provide you with Canada’s best student health and accident insurance products. As a representative of all the major Canadian insurers, we can shop the market on your behalf. More importantly, our large book of business gives us the power to develop exclusive, customized products designed to better suit your needs.

Service That Supports You Every Step of the Way

Ingle offers a wide range of unique services that add value to your student insurance plan. Here are just some of the things we do for you:

Customized Website: for every group, we provide a customized website with product details, claim information, a medical service provider listing for your region, our contact information, government resources, health information and more.
Claims and Emergency Assistance: in the event of an emergency, help is available with a quick phone call, 24/7. In the event of complex claims, or if you have concerns, we will make sure you receive the support and information you need.
Administration Team: our team is available to you at all times, with a direct toll-free telephone number during regular business hours, and 24/7 email support.
Technology: need help linking from your website to ours, upgrading your systems or other technology issues? Our technology team is here to make things quick and easy for you.
Financial Benefits: a percentage of each premium is paid back to you as an administration fee, or if you prefer we can pay into a scholarship fund.
Customized Group Benefit Plans: for your students, staff and educators.

For more information or a quote, please contact:

Amina Issa
Director of International Student Services
Toll-Free: 1-866-230-2477
Fax: 1-877-844-6453
aissa at ingleinternational dot com

Mission

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Ingle International offers a wide range of products and services to suit the needs of our partners and clients. We work with individual clients, groups and associations across Canada and internationally.

Our mission is to connect our partners, members and clients with the right products, services and information to suit their needs. The message of Ingle International is clear and consistent: We will help you navigate the world of insurance.

Our core competency is the sale and marketing of travel, health, and special risk insurance. We represent a range of Canadian, American and international insurance providers to bring greater choice and enhanced options to the consumer.

Ingle International uses multiple points of contact to connect with the consumer: the internet, the customer care centre and local licensed agents.

Customer care is an integral part of our business model. Our highly trained customer care centre staff provides customers with unique personal attention, and helps with their individual needs. Our staff is multilingual, and our marketing material is available in 12 different languages. Our strong, multilingual web presence also gives us a competitive edge.

We market our services to individuals, affinity groups, rewards programs and organizations. We work with our partners to create customized and integrated solutions for their member bases.

History

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Ingle has been a trusted name in the insurance industry since 1946, when John and Muriel Ingle first founded John Ingle Insurance as a family business. The Ingles were selling basic health and accident insurance when they noticed that there was no adequate health insurance for new arrivals to Canada. Recognizing a gap in the market, they soon began providing insurance coverage, as well as housing and employment information to this growing group of customers.

Government departments and ministries took notice of the unique service that the Ingles provided and asked them to help develop insurance plans for new arrivals to Canada and Canadians travelling abroad. The plans that the Ingles developed gave people health coverage where government programs fell short (considered “special risk” at the time) and served as the prototypes for travel health insurance in Canada.

John Ingle Insurance grew and opened offices across Canada. Their business model incorporated innovation and technology early on, providing toll-free telephone access when it was still quite new. They also focused on the specific customer-service needs of their client base, offering multilingual print material and bilingual customer service.

Robin Ingle joined the family business in 1975 and took over as President in 1985. In 2001, Robin Ingle founded Imagine Financial, a Managing General Agent (MGA) that provides insurance products to agents, brokers, and individual clients across Canada.

Today, Ingle International works with agents and insurance providers across Canada and worldwide to offer a full range of insurance products and services, including travel, health and life insurance, as well as special risk products. By providing access to insurance products and services to suit the needs and budget of our customers, Ingle International and its partners can provide the right coverage for anyone going anywhere in the world.

The mixture of innovation, technology and quality customer service remains a top priority for Ingle International. Headquartered in downtown Toronto, the Ingle International office includes a state-of-the-art call centre where highly trained Customer Service Representatives provide customers, partners and agents with the unique personal attention they need. Ingle International also offers multilingual client services by phone, print and online.

Ingle International is a member of the Ingle Group of Companies, along with its affiliates Novus Health and Peak Contact. Novus Health provides personal, knowledgeable and compassionate assistance to help Canadians navigate the health care system and access the trusted health information they need for healthier living. Peak Contact is a state-of-the-art technology provider, offering consulting, web solutions, systems integration and more.

Robin Ingle

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Robin Ingle is the founder and Chairman of Ingle International, a life and health insurance managing general agent with licensed insurance representatives across Canada and affiliates in Florida, Texas, Mexico, Australia, Malta, Germany and the UK.

Robin Ingle has 35 years of hands-on experience working directly with special risk health and travel insurance products, including product design, marketing, underwriting, administration, claims/emergency assistance, licensing, and re-insurance. He was the past President and CEO of Ingle Health, a leading provider of health and travel Insurance products to over a million Canadian policy holders annually and over 5.5 million emergency assistance card holders.

Ingle has been a media spokesperson for his company and the travel and insurance industry and has participated in thousands of interviews, talk shows, seminars and lectures in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Europe. Ingle has worked closely with media and journalists in television, print, radio, and new media and is an experienced public speaker.

In the News

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Recent news about Ingle International. Choose a link below to read more.

Robin Ingle’s interview on the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster

CTV News, January 27, 2012

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Cuba to Force Tourists to Buy Medical Insurance

The Toronto Star, April 12, 2010

Rising Consumer Awareness Drives Travel Insurance Sales

Insurance Journal, April 2010

You’re Covered! Your Kidney Isn’t

The Toronto Star, February 9, 2010

Travel Brokers Face Clients’ H1N1 Fears

Insurance Journal, November/December 2009

Snowbirds: Read the Fine Print

Forever Young, October 2009

Offering Snowbird Insurance Can Help Advisors Strengthen Client Relationships

The Insurance Journal, September 2009

Caught in the Bandit Cross Fire

National Geographic Adventure, August/September 2009

Doing Business in Europe: A New Era for Canada

Canadian Business Magazine, September 2009

Special Section: Insurance

Toronto Star, August 16, 2008

Paying a Premium: A High-Risk Condition Can Send Your Insurance Costs Soaring

Money Sense, February 2008

Numbers Low in Sales and Middle Management

Investment Executive, February 2008

Insuring Success

Languages Travel Magazine, June 2006

World Travel Possible for People with Special Needs

Investment Executive, February 2006

Enabling Insurance for Disabled Travellers

International Travel Insurance Journal, April 2005

The Assurance of Insurance

Diabetes Dialogue, Spring 2005

Trip Saddles Tourist with $24,500 Debt

The Toronto Star, September 18, 2003

Imagine Insurance: A New Player in the Field

Insurance Journal, October 2001

Ingle Life and Health Makes Way for Trent

Insurance Journal, October 2001

Travel Health Insurance: Blessing or Curse

Canadian Insurance/Agent & Broker, April 1994

Why work with us?

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With over 60 years of experience in the industry, Ingle International knows insurance. Even more importantly, we know our customers. And we do our utmost to meet their needs. A partnership with Ingle International means access to our unique offering of services, from customized travel insurance solutions to high-tech marketing opportunities to quality customer service. Want to know more? Take a moment to learn about the Ingle difference below…

Products

Our core competency is the sale and marketing of travel, health, and special risk insurance. Ingle offers a complete suite of travel, health, life and living benefits product lines. Our focus is international, catering to individuals working, studying or travelling outside of their home countries and offering a range of products to meet all of our customers’ needs.

We represent a range of Canadian, American and international insurance providers to bring greater choice and enhanced options to the consumer. Ingle is also one of the few companies in Canada with the expertise to handle out-of-the-ordinary requests such as war and terrorism coverage, travel to high-risk destinations or extreme sports. Ingle works with Canadian and international insurers to arrange the necessary coverage.

Marketing

We market our services to individuals, affinity groups, rewards programs and organizations. Ingle operates across many different market segments using multiple marketing channels.

In the affinity and reward channel, targeted marketing allows us to reach a larger base of people at a lower cost with a higher response rate. This also allows us to build brand awareness, and provides added value to the partner organization’s offering to its members.

Our strong, multilingual web presence also gives us a competitive edge and allows us to expand our market share at a low cost base.

Customization

We work with our partners to create customized and integrated solutions for your member bases. We use multiple points of contact to connect with the consumer: the internet, our customer care centre and local licensed agents.

Some of the customization options available to our high-volume partners include:

branded policies and product information
customized website, including products and services of interest to your members
dedicated toll-free and local phone number
informational documents geared specifically to your members, including helpful tips and branded content
informational seminars geared to the needs of your members

The Personal Touch

Our customer service strategy is service-oriented and designed to match the needs of a customer to the benefits of a product. This enables us to offer superior service to market segments that have special needs, such as individuals with complex health issues or unusual travel patterns.

Experience

Some of our high-profile clients include:

The Canadian Diabetes Association
March of Dimes Canada
School boards and educational organizations
Colleges and universities
Aid organizations and NGOs
Youth travel & exchange programs
Robert Young Pelton, Author of “The World’s Most Dangerous Places”
Security consultants
Environmental consultants
Writers and academics

Marketing

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Ingle International operates across many different market segments, including individual travellers, affinity groups, rewards programs, schools, and other organizations.

Our marketing efforts are targeted to specific groups, ensuring a higher response rate at a lower cost. Our customized websites and emphasis on branding provide added value to the services our partner organizations can offer their members.

A strong, multilingual web presence gives us a competitive edge and allows us to reach international markets despite geographic and language barriers.

Groups and Associations

Ingle International has a long-standing history of working with member groups and associations. Our marketing material is tailored to the needs of each group, including highlighting specific products and matching the style and aesthetic that members are familiar with.

Yak

Ingle International provides the members of this Canadian telecommunications company with a full suite of insurance products.
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Aeroplan

Ingle offered a custom-built insurance program for members of Canada’s premier loyalty program.
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Financial Institutions

Ingle International has worked with several well-known international financial institutions over the years to provide travel insurance and embedded specialized services for their customers.

Some of our partners have included HSBC, CIBC, Alberta Credit Union and Canadian Western Bank.
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Non-Profit Organizations

Ingle offered a custom-built insurance program for members of Canada’s premier loyalty program.

We work with several non-profit organizations to provide insurance for their members, supporters and staff. We help connect people with particular health needs, such as pre-existing conditions, with the coverage they need.

Canadian Diabetes Association

Since 1953, the Canadian Diabetes Association has been raising awareness, providing services and supporting Canadians affected by diabetes. Ingle International is the official insurance partner of the Canadian Diabetes Association.

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March of Dimes

Ontario March of Dimes teamed up with Ingle International to create the TravelAbility program. Ingle offers people with special needs access to a wide range of travel insurance products.
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International Students

Ingle is the exclusive insurance provider for numerous school boards, private schools, language academies, colleges and universities across Canada.

Our marketing material is multilingual to reflect the needs of our partners’ student populations.

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Special Risk

Ingle is able to insure individuals who engage in higher-risk activities. We have insured every kind of adventure, from reporters and aid workers going to war-torn countries to expeditions to climb Mount Everest.

Robert Young Pelton

Pelton has traveled around the world and is the author of World’s Most Dangerous Places. Ingle insures Pelton for all of his adventures.

Jamie Clarke

Clarke is a professional adventurer and Everest summiteer. Ingle insured Clarke when he climbed Mt. Everest and crossed the Empty Quarter.

Websites

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Ingle International creates customized websites for our clients, partners, agents, and affiliates. Web design that is tailored to your company’s brand and information that speaks directly to your members provides users with a personalized experience, and keeps them coming back for more.

Consumer Direct

Our consumer direct website provides customers the convenience to find the insurance product they are looking for and the flexibility to choose the right policy for their insurance needs. Our site is comprehensive, yet easy to navigate, including detailed product information, instant quotes, policy wordings, and helpful tips and information for travellers.

Ingle Travel

Associations and Groups

Ingle International works with a number of associations and organizations, providing these groups with insurance solutions unique to the needs of their members. Also unique is the customized website we create, designed with the needs and interests of your members in mind. Our customized branding techniques results in a familiar experience for your members, and lets them know that they are visiting a trusted partner of the organization.

Diabetes Association of Canada

March of Dimes

Travelability

Group Benefits

Faith Based Organizations

International Students

Ingle International provides international students with the protection they need while studying in Canada, the US, or anywhere in the world. Visit Study Insured to see just how much our customized student website has to offer: from a wide range of insurance products geared towards the needs and budgets of students to advanced features, such as access to travel-related articles, definitions for tricky insurance terms, and a searchable database of health care providers across Canada.

Schools

Ingle International builds custom websites for all of the schools we work with. Depending on your school’s preference when it comes to purchasing insurance products, the site will either provide students with information on their existing coverage (if all students are already covered automatically) or will act as an online point of purchase (if they are buying individually). No matter how you choose to do business with us, your school’s customized website will include helpful tips on how to file a claim, where to find a doctor in your area, and much more. Product information is available in 14 languages.

Demonstration Sites:
Embedded Program Demo Site
Optional Program Demo Site

Agents

Ingle International acts as a Managing General Agent (MGA) for all major insurers across Canada. Ingle offers the same level of excellence to both Canadian and international agents, providing them with a complete suite of travel, health, and special risk product lines. We also offer customized websites for high-volume agents.

Agents

Specialty websites

Ingle International is one of the few insurance providers in Canada with the expertise to handle out-of-the-ordinary requests, such as coverage for acts of war and terrorism coverage, high-risk travel, or extreme sports.

Ingle’s Worldwide Special Risk website offers information to individuals who travel to dangerous places for work or for pleasure. Whether reporting from a war zone, taking part in international sporting events, or travelling to an area known for terrorist attacks or kidnappings, you can find customized travel insurance to suit your unique needs here.

Peak Freaks should be at the top of your list if you enjoy being at the top of the world! Specially designed for mountaineers and trekkers, this is the place to find customized travel insurance before you reach new heights.

Robert Young Pelton’s Come Back Alive is a one-stop destination for adventurists and danger-enthusiasts alike! Want to travel to a dangerous place? Head over to Come Back Alive to find out about the world’s current hot spots, learn about pre-departure immunizations, and read up on some cool travel stories from places like Afghanistan and North Korea!

Intrepid is a unique provider of health solutions for individuals who are travelling, studying, or living anywhere in the world. Learn about our customized packages, including emergency assistance, medical case management, claims administration, cost containment, and personalized health care assistance.

Contact Us

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Contact us for more information or to begin working with us

Phone

Partnership Inquiries: 1-877-585-8488
Marketing and Media Inquiries: 1-888-824-4418
Product Inquiries: 1-800-360-3234

Email

Partnership Inquiries: partnerships at ingleinsurance dot com
Marketing and Media Inquiries: marketing at ingleinsurance dot com
Product Inquiries: helpline at ingleinsurance dot com

Address

Head Office
Ingle International
460 Richmond St. W. suite 100
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1Y1
Canada