Originally Posted by
serpens
Your question, pred02, piqued my interest since I expect to rent a car in England next month.
There were a couple of things that concerned me. First, the name of the document includes the word Interim. Second, this is the bottom paragraph on page 2 (with formatting removed).
It seemed likely that England would be one of "most foreign countries." Still, wanting reassurance, I called the Benefits Administrator, and aside from the five-minute waits (two of them), it was a pleasant call. The representative confirmed that England is not an excluded country, and encouraged me to ask the rental agency if it or the territory terms made coverage not applicable. Then the rep sent a letter to me saying the coverage would apply. (Some of the formatting got fouled up; apparently PDF formatting is not compatible with FlyerTalk.)
I would rather that the letter said England was included, since that was why I called, but it seemed like a good response from the Benefits Administrator.
There are SO MANY COUNTRIES in the world that the benefit applied, it is impractical to give you a laundry list of eligible countries.
The KEY is, England is NOT on an Excluded Countries List. Just check out the document AMEX has, that is the way the CC CDW benefits would described. In the past, Visa and MC had similar lists of Excluded Countries as AMEX had because some countries have government mandated basic CDW included in the rate, or the theft rate was very high, or in some conflict zone (Northern Irelnd and Israel come to mind). In recent years some high end Visa cards which CSR is one, and high end MCs, no longer excluding countries.
Your rental in England is covered as long as all other requirements are met.