News & Articles
Breast Cancer In Women
What is breast cancer? Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with many women diagnosed with breast cancer each year. It occurs when some breast cells begin to grow abnormally. These cells divide more rapidly than healthy cells do and continue to...
Insurance Requirements To Enter Thailand
The insurance required for a foreigner wanting to enter Thailand has changed dramatically since COVID 19 was unleashed upon the world earlier this year. From a very laissez – faire attitude where there was no insurance requirement, suddenly in March 2020 it was...
Golfer’s Indemnity Insurance
When it comes to injuries, amateur or professional golf players should be protected. The insurance covers self-inflicted injuries, liability to bodily harm or property damage inflicted to third-person, and damages to golf equipment. We also offer special bonus if you...
Health Insurance Plans for Returning Foreigners (includes COVID-19)
According to a Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand notification, distributed to Air Operators, the seven groups of foreigners expected to be allowed entry from 1st July, must have appropriate insurance policies. The aforementioned groups will include skilled...
Business Interruption Insurance and Covid-19
Business owners all over the world are seeking advice on insurance to see if any of the cover they presently have will cover them against losses incurred because of C19. Business Interruption Insurance (BII) covers a company for loss of income during periods when it...
Passports Please! Pattaya imposes tougher measures to block spread of COVID-19
Road checkpoints to be set up, especially on all routes out of Pattaya and at the principal intersections between the city and the so called Dark Side. Expats, tourists and all other foreigners have been instructed to have their original passports with them whilst...
The Notification of the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand on Practical Guideline for Air Operators Performing Flights into the Kingdom of Thailand
To All Macallan Insurance Brokers Customers and especially non-Thais who are abroad now or expect to go abroad. You can see from the below information that a new set of rules were brought in by the Thai Government if a foreigner comes to Thailand he must be able to...
The Retirement Visa And What Insurance Is Required By Law
A new Thai law now requires certain categories of foreigner's immigration visas to have health insurance. It is now a legal requirement for an ascribed person that the minimum amount of health insurance is THB400,000 for in-patient stays and THB40,000 baht for...
A few words about Car Insurance and Vehicle Insurance in Thailand
It is the law in Thailand that all motor vehicles must have compulsory third party insurance which is referred to by the Thais as ‘Porobor’. Without the Porobor, it is impossible to get any road tax which is the square sticker displayed on the windscreen of your...
Coronavirus – Prevention Recommendations
Dear Valued Client, we start the Month of Love with some advice about the new virus identified in China on 7th January and named 2019-nCov (coronavirus). This new virus is part of the family of viruses that includes cold, flu and viruses such as SARS and MERS. At the...