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SPECIAL MENTION: With extreme weather events more frequent than ever, travel can be a gamble. Sensible Weather’s guarantee service is travel insurance that offers consumers protection for weather disruption to their trip—including reimbursement for hotels, reservations, and ticketed events. (It’s also planning to add air quality issues in the future, in case a trip to California is marred by wildfire smoke, for example.)

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