INSURANCES & COVERAGE IN CANADA

Loss Damage Waiver  Additional Liability Insurance  Personal Accident Insurance

Personal Effects Protection

 

When renting an AVIS car the client will be asked to accept or decline any of the optional coverage's or insurances. If the customer initials to accept the coverage's and/or the insurances the client will NOT be reimbursed.

 

L.D.W. Loss Damage Waiver

When you rent an AVIS car, you will be asked if you'd like to purchase the Loss Damage Waiver (LDW) at an additional charge.

 

LDW is not an Insurance. It is an optional coverage and it is not mandatory LDW releases you from any financial responsibility (except for the amount shown as "responsibility" on the front of your Rental Agreement) for loss, or damage to your AVIS car due to collision, theft, vandalism, or any other cause - as long as you are in compliance with the terms of your AVIS Rental Agreement. If you don't accept LDW, your are responsible for all loss or damage to the rental car due to theft, collision, vandalism, or any cause other than specified on your Rental Agreement.

 

( ! For more information or to find out the exclusions in the locality in which You rent, refer to the cover of your Rent Contract or the pamphlet at the rent counter.

 

A.L.I. Additional Liability Insurance

In Canada the Civil Responsibility and Property Damage are included in the rates with a maximum of CA$ 200,000.- for an accident (CA$ 50,000.- in Quebec province). The amounts can vary according to the Province where the rent is taken. Please verify with your travel agent for rates that can include a higher coverage.

 

( ! For more information or to find out about the exclusions at the Province in which you rent, refer to your Rental Agreement jacket or to the brochure available at the rental counter.

 

P.A.I. Personal Accident Insurance

Personal Accident Insurance (PAI) (in Canada, PAI Plus) is an optional insurance offered by AVIS, designed to give you tranquility when you are on the road. This insurance is offered to you at the pick-up moment. You may obtain it by paying an additional charge as indicated on the AVIS Rental Agreement. The purchase of PAI is not required in order to rent an AVIS car. The PAI provides the car renter a specific amount by accidental death. The cover starts and continues until the moment are not more the person who rents the car by virtue of the Rent Contract. You are assured when you are inside or outside of the rented car, in case of accident. The PAI also covers all the passengers in the car with you. For the coverage to be valid, they must be in the rented vehicle. The PAI offers a specific amount for death insurance in an accident involving an AVIS rented car.

 

( ! For more information or to find out about the exclusions in the Province in which you rent, refer to your Rental Agreement jacket or to the brochure available at the rental counter.

 

P.E.P. Personal Effects Protection

AVIS offers to the vehicle renter and the members of his immediate family that are traveling with him and staying at the same place, protection for his personal effects  against all risks like physical loss or damage by external causes during the entire rental period of the vehicle, except all what's excluded. The maximum coverage for each person during the rental period is of CA$ 500.- with a deductible of CA$ 50.- for each claim. The maximum coverage for all the persons during the rental period is of CA$1,500.- after applying all the deductible.

 

( ! For more information or to find out about the exclusions in the Province in which you rent, refer to your Rental Agreement jacket or to the brochure available at the rental counter.