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- From: shoroff@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bart Simpson)
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- Subject: Re: Car rentals (was Re: Terrible Experience With Alamo)
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:10:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug24.175110.26107%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu> mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike Suter) writes:
- >>>> When I rented a car at Alamo a few months ago,
- >>>>the person there pushed me very hard to buy
- >>>>insurance even though I used my visa gold card,
- >>>>which as I understood, covered that.
- >
- >>>No, secondary coverage covers what your own car insurance does not
- >>>cover. Most credit card insurnace policies work as follows: Many
- >>>personal car insurance policies cover rental cars. If yours does not
- >>>or if you do not have a car insurance policy then the credit card
- >>>insurance becomes your primary insurance.
- >
- >What about liability? For instance, my insurance company (State Farm)
- >recently dropped all coverage for business-related rentals on my personal
- >policy. This would be fine if I used my AT&T Universal card, which
- >has rental insurance, but I do not believe this or any of these credit
- >card policies cover liability, just rental car damage. Is this true?
- >
-
- I'm fairly certain that all the car rental companies are *required* to
- carry liability insurance on the cars, so whenever you rent the
- liability insurance comes without asking for it. Its only about the
- CDW/LDW stuff(often limited to $3000 ? ) that the agents try to stuff
- you with B.S. Of course the agents shaft you by making you feel that
- your entire lifesavings and assets are at stake if you dont buy their
- insurance but that's another story.
-
- Srihari
-
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