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Graham Briar & partner plea for financial help for heart surgery

"What is co-insurance ?"

Dive instructor & Oxford University maths graduate fights for life after massive stroke aged 39

A diving instructor is fighting for his life in a Thai hospital after suffering a stroke in his sleep.

Dan Robinson, 39, who is originally from Deighton, suffered a stroke on Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand where he has been working as a dive instructor.

The former Greenhead College student, who has been living in Thailand for several years, was taken ill on Wednesday - a year to the day since he married his partner Jurait.

Airlifted from Mauritius

In April 2016, an expat family in Mauritius faced every parent’s worst nightmare when a bad headache soon proved to be a lot more sinister for their 10 year old daughter.

Jamie Copsey and his wife Olivia live on Mauritius with their children Patrick, Matilda (Tilly) and Ferguson.

Accident costs abroad can be quite staggering

If you're weighing up whether it’s worth covering yourself with travel insurance next time you head overseas, some newly released figures from InsureandGo may make that decision easier for you.

Claims data has revealed its top three most expensive Australian claims over the past year for accidents abroad to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Mother of 24 year old Natasha Hutchinson having to pay GBP 35,000 hospital after holiday crash

A British woman been left with a £35,000 hospital bill after she nearly lost her leg in a horror moped crash on holiday in Thailand.

Natasha Hutchinson, 24, was travelling on the back of a a rented moped in the popular beach resort Phuket, when they collided with a lorry and she fell off and crushed her leg.

Miss Hutchinson has now left her parents tens of thousands of pounds in debt because she had forgotten to get medical insurance.

Brain injuries at any age are dramatic but at age 24 whilst overseas without insurance they become very problematic

In January 2016 Owen Auskerry - a 24 year old - from Scotland tragically suffered a brain aneurysm (a burst blood vessel) whilst in Thailand.

At the time of the incident Owen was flown from Nakhon Si Thammarat , some 380km , to a private hospital in Bangkok after a series of seizures.

Owen underwent a 3 1/2 hour brain surgery whilst his parents made arrangements to fly to the Thai capital to be by his side.

The medical costs rose steeply very quickly and concerns over his long-term care forced his family to turn to crowdfunding website GoFundMe for help.

It was further reported at the time that "The cost of his medical treatment in Thailand and the financial implications of his parents going out there to help look after him, as well to bring him home have been and will continue to be considerable".