Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:01:38

From: Andrew Tettenborn

Subject: Liesbosch

The answer to Jason's question is simple but cynical: the English are cheapskates. You can get policies that give you a free hire car, but many drivers are too mean to buy them.

Andrew

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:50:12 -0500
From: Jason Neyers
Subject: Re: FWD: ODG: Liesbosch

A question for our English friends:

Why is it that the cost of renting a car is not covered by the injured party's insurance as is routinely done in Canada (or at least in Ontario)? In other words why is there even a "credit-hire" business --statute, commercial habit, etc? For example, the last time I had an accident, I merely went to the car rental company and they billed my insurance company directly.

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