INSURANCE
Charged for insurance I never wanted — or needed
Jenny Tran discovers a mysterious $260 charge on her credit card and discovers she’s been charged for optional car rental insurance she never wanted, or needed. Can she get a refund?
Is JetBlue scaring passengers into buying travel insurance?
If you’re a frequent flier, maybe you’ve already been roughed up by an airline, rhetorically speaking. I try to stay away from planes myself. I fly very infrequently and I book airline tickets even less.
“What should I have done in this situation?”
The car rental insurance scam is a fairly well-known “gotcha” for international renters, and it’s a trap Doreen Murphy believes she walked right into when she rented a car from Budget in Northern Ireland recently.
Why won’t insurance cover my lost frequent-flier miles?
Charles Stewart’s wife is hospitalized in England and misses her return flight. Thank goodness she has travel insurance, which covers the cost of her return flight. But what about the miles she spent? Are they lost?
Should I have to pay for my car rental to be towed?
Kathy O’Leary is being pursued by a collection agency, which wants it to pay for a tow on a Hertz rental. Does she have to? Or should insurance cover her rental?
Sorry, your travel insurance doesn’t cover mother-in-law’s death
It’s been a while since I mediated travel insurance claim, and at first glance, Dennis Puskaric’s looked like a slam-dunk
Are car rental companies forcing you to buy insurance you don’t need?
When Todd Ramsdell’s wife rents a car from Budget, she’s told insurance is required. But it isn’t, and now she wants her money back. Why isn’t Budget budging?