About Us

Success Starts With Experience

Established in 1973, USI Travel Insurance Services (TIS) is an independent insurance agency/brokerage serving the insurance needs of the travel community. TIS is headquarted in the San Francisco Bay Area, California License #OD95561. Our founder, Ralph R. Davis, possessed a uniquely broad background in both the insurance and travel industries. An innovator, he assisted in the design of the first comprehensive trip cancellation policy in North America, and for many years concurrently operated a successful wholesale tour company. Today, TIS staff members share similarly rich backgrounds.

TIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the USI Holdings Corporation. Since USI's inception in 1994, it was built to provide insurance-related financial services and property and casualty insurance to the middle market. In recent years, it has acquired companies, like TIS, with strong franchise names and a specialized area of expertise. In 2004, TIS joined USI to become part of the ninth largest insurance brokerage firm in the United States and to increase USI's reach into the affinity marketplace.

Growth and Innovation

Working only with financially strong U.S. admitted insurers, TIS has designed revolutionary coverages for travelers, including the first successful individual visitors travel medical insurance policy for foreign nationals and temporary residents who would otherwise be medically uninsured while visiting the United States.

Offering a Complete Travel Related Insurance Product Line

Do you need accident/sickness medical travel insurance, trip cancellation, emergency medical evacuation or baggage coverage? Are you an individual American venturing overseas for the first time? Are your parents planning to visit you from abroad? Does your business need a high limit accident plan for an executive who travels internationally? Would you like a custom plan developed for a group of visiting foreign business people? Whatever your need, the chances are that TIS will be able to fulfill it with appropriate coverages at reasonable premiums.

Meeting the Needs of the Travel Community

A diverse group of organizations and individuals benefit from the products and services that TIS offers: