Rental Vehicle Insurance Excess Benefits

A driving holiday can be a freeing experience as you create your own itinerary and go at your own pace. However, accidents can happen when driving on unfamiliar roads with different driving laws. Consider the peace of mind that rental vehicle insurance excess coverage can offer to protect your next driving holiday.

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What Does WAS Rental Vehicle Insurance Excess Cover?

At WAS Travel Insurance, you can customise your insurance plans to suit your travel needs. This can include coverage if you decide to rent a car during your trip. All you’d need to do is let us know that you plan on including a rental car in your itinerary.

If you select the rental car excess add-on, cover would include:

• Rental vehicle insurance excess up to $6,000
• Cost of returning your rental vehicle to the nearest depot, including related airport concession charges, if you can’t return the vehicle due to an event covered by this policy.

For example, if your rental vehicle insurance has an excess of $1,000 and you have an accident causing $2,500 in damage to your rental vehicle, WAS travel insurance can cover the $1,000 excess, and the rental vehicle insurance would review the claim for the remaining $1,500. Depending on your plans, rental car excess insurance may not be good value for your needs – check what’s right for you.

The benefits of renting a car with insurance speak for themselves; it means you can drive with an extra sense of security, knowing some of the expenses can be covered if you get into an unforeseen, unexpected accident.

Why Might I Need Rental Vehicle Insurance Excess Cover?

We all climb behind the wheel with confidence, heading out on a journey to explore the sights of our holiday destination. When you travel, the traffic can be chaotic, the roads may have different rules, and the car you rent might be different from what you’re accustomed to.

Each of these factors has the potential to cause an accident.

Purchasing rental vehicle insurance excess cover can help protect you from potential financial liability in the event of an accident or theft of the rental vehicle while abroad, giving you one less thing to worry about as you deal with the fallout of an accident.