What is included in USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance?
With this level of cover, you’ll get:
- Excess on claims — Cover against excess costs of up to €6,500 in total, per year if your hire car is damaged or stolen.
- Drivers aged between 21 and 84 — Cover for a wide age range of insured drivers
- Additional drivers — Cover for up to five additional drivers, as long as they’re named in your rental agreement. There’s no need to add them to your hire excess policy.
- 12-month multi-trip policies – Cover for multiple trips made in a year at a fixed cost; provided no single trip exceeds 120 days. Car club cover is also included within our annual multi-trip policies.
- Misfuelling and key cover — Cover for each, up to €500 per claim.
- Flat battery cover — Cover for up to €1,000 per claim.
- Fire, theft, and vandalism cover — Covers excess costs for claims resulting from damage by fire, theft, and malicious damage.
- Tyres and windscreen cover — Covers the excess on claims for the repair or replacement of your tyres and windscreen. This also includes damage to windows, headlights, undercarriage, and roof.
- Cover for baggage and personal effects — Cover for claims relating to personal effects (like clothing) and luggage stolen from your hire car.
What is not included in USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance?
- Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) or Supplemental Liability Insurance (SLI).
- Courtesy car excess cover for any vehicle that’s loaned to you if your rental car is being repaired.
- Car rentals where the USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance policyholder doesn’t match the name of the lead driver on the rental agreement.
- Policies purchased after the collection of your rental vehicle.
- Cars worth more than €100,000 or which are over 20 years old.
- Cover for off-road driving.
- Commercial vehicles, motorbikes, camper vans, mobile homes, vans, or any vehicle with more than nine seats.
- Cover for policyholders that are not EU residents.
Why should I take out USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance with insurance4carhire?
There are plenty of reasons to choose us for Car Hire Excess Insurance:
- A high level of cover— Cover excess up to the value of €6,500 in total per year.
- Additional drivers — Cover for up to five additional drivers named on your rental agreement.
- Flexible rental periods — Choose your level of cover for a single trip of up to 120 consecutive days, or annual multi-trip for individual trips up to 120 days at a time for up to 12 months.
- Multiple benefits included as standard — Includes cover for misfuelling, car keys, flat batteries, and even late pick-up charges due to delayed flights.
USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance FAQs
Single-trip Car Hire Excess Insurance policies provide excess cover for one single trip of up to 120 consecutive days. This option is ideal if you’re going to rent a car for a one-time journey.
An annual multi-trip policy covers your excess for multiple trips for a year, at a fixed cost (provided no single trip exceeds 120 days). This is the most cost-effective option if you frequently hire cars throughout the year for travel or commuting. Our annual multi-trip policies also provide cover for cars hired from car clubs as well as rental companies.
It is compulsory to have a minimum level of cover for third-party insurance.
For example, in California the minimum requirement for individual bodily injury is $15,000, whereas it’s only $5,000 for property damage. The minimum can vary from state to state.
In the UK and Republic of Ireland, the minimum requirement for car insurance is third-party cover which tends to provide cover for millions of pounds/euros.
No, our USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance also covers EU residents for claims made in most countries across the world, however some exclusions apply.
Yes. Our USA & Canada Car Hire Excess Insurance extends to the person named as the lead driver, plus up to five named drivers on the car rental agreement.
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