I haven't been blogging lately but today, I've had no less than two different things to blog about. It's hard to believe.
First... the nightmare of paperwork that happens when your rental car (rented on your personal AmEx) is hit by a cabbie, while you're not in it, while you're on business travel. Luckily, since the cabbie hit a parked car, the fault is 100% his (and, to his credit, he admitted so), so it's unlikely I'd ever be forced to pay a dime. However, if he defaults and doesn't pay, or his insurance balks, who pays?
- Me personally? Well, I don't think so.
- American Express' extended liability coverage? They say only whatever my personal auto insurance doesn't cover.
- My personal insurance company? God I hope not, I don't want to file a claim with them and have them ding my rates because some cabbie hit me.
- Vassar? The most likely option of all of those, actually, is that Hertz bills me and I get reimbursed from Vassar.
So while it may seem like that last option is the most likely, there's a maze of twisty bureaucratic procedures to go through to make that happen, I'm sure. Not looking forward to that, and so I really and truly hope that the cabbie's insurance pays up like they're supposed to.
More stuff in my next post....
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