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Old Oct 3, 2010, 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by jeelele
This type of coverage is called liability insurance and there is no credit card that offers liability coverage for rental cars.

It is a law in most if not all states to compulsorily have liability coverage. If you do not already have it, you have to buy it from the rental car company. In some states, it may already be included in the cost of the rental.
In Canada, such information is explicitly disclosed on the rental contract in pretty big print - that the liability insurance is included in the rental rate.

I think I have seen rental contracts in US also allude to this fact but in very very tiny prints. It does not hurt to make sure this at the counter and decide if you also want to buy the liability insurance which inevitably the agent would try hard to sell it to you.
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