Rental car coverage can be confusing, from figuring out whether your current auto insurance policy will cover you while you’re on vacation or not to finding the best protection for your budget if you need additional coverage. We’ve got expert tips on understanding your policy and making smart consumer choices, so that you can drive a rental car with the protection you need, on the budget you have.

Vacation Rental Car Insurance: Should I Buy Coverage from the Rental Agency?

Vacation Rental Car Insurance: Should I Buy Coverage from the Rental Agency?
By Cameron Jones

While renting a car in the United States or Canada, whether on vacation or for other purposes, it’s important to consider whether or not you need to buy the insurance offered to you by the car rental agency. Because it’s the law to drive an insured car, you won’t be able to drive off the lot without some sort of coverage in place. Most of us realize that we can purchase this insurance at the time we rent a car from the rental agency but do we have to buy their insurance?

Auto Insurance Replacement Rental Vehicles: What You Need To Know

Auto Insurance Replacement Rental Vehicles: What You Need To Know

Renting an insurance replacement vehicle can be a stressful experience. After all you are renting a vehicle only because yours is in the body shop, or worse yet has been stolen.  Knowing your insurance policy rental coverage limitations and the rental company contract provisions and how they apply can help ease the anxieties associated with this experience.