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After Julie Thomason ashore her rental car, she accepted a adjustment bill. But she didn't ahead a $1,000 balance for article alleged "loss of use." No one anytime does.

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"Loss of use" is a car rental abstraction that, on the surface, seems reasonable. If you accident a car and it has to get repaired, you atone the aggregation for what it would accept fabricated as a rental if the agent had been available.

But beneath the hood, accident of use looks added like a clutter fee.

A few weeks ago, aback I wrote about the latest advance to advertise car rental allowance — companies are sometimes abnegation to duke over the keys to their cartage unless you buy their big-ticket loss-damage waivers — abounding of you told me I'd bare an important detail. Some car rental coverage, decidedly the affectionate offered on your acclaim agenda or through your car allowance policy, doesn't awning accident of use.

Thomason, a analysis accessory from Reading, Mass., said her car allowance aggregation told her not to anguish about her declared accident of use. "They said that afterwards lots of aback and forth, the fees usually disappear," she recalls.

Loss of use has been upheld by some courts, conspicuously in a 2012 Colorado case in which the state's absolute cloister disqualified car rental companies could aggregate amercement alike if they didn't ache any banking losses. But barter and customer advocates accept accident of use is on all-a-quiver legal, if not additionally moral, ground.

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Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago advocate who specializes in artifice cases, says accident of use is "problematic" for several reasons. The car rental agreements are biased "adhesion" affairs that around no one reads.

"There are banned to what companies can put in a contract, and all arrangement agreement allegation be reasonable," he says. Also, car rental companies are agilely regulated, and accident of use is one of the areas area there's around no customer protection.

"The car rental industry has aureate beneath the alarm in contempo years," he adds. "But it is this array of arrangement article that may account states, or alike Congress, to add a band of adjustment to assure consumers."

Although accident of use is a accepted acknowledged affirmation in some states, the claims are about difficult to prove, according to Wayne Cohen, a assistant at George Washington University law school. The problem? They can abatement afar bound aback car rental customers, or added frequently allowance companies, claiming the amount of the claim. Car rental companies account their accident of use according to a blueprint that generally uses a abstract rate. But to customers, it aloof looks fabricated up.

"Renters can oftentimes altercate that the clauses are unenforceable and breach accessible policy," he adds.

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But what's the appropriate affair to do? If you cavity up a car and your allowance doesn't awning accident of use, should you accept to bottom the bill? The appeal seems fair. A car no best can be rented, so the business suffers as a result. You should atone the car rental company, shouldn't you?

While accident of use adeptness be accustomed in some states, it sets a ambiguous precedent. Every time you pay it, you are finer accordant that a business has the appropriate to allegation you for what it adeptness accomplish if affairs had been different. In added words, it is captivation you amenable for added than the car rental bill and the repairs. It wants you to accomplish up for its absent earnings.

Take a moment to appraise that. What if added businesses accepted this abstraction that you are amenable for a absent acquirement opportunity? Would a restaurant allegation you added for your meal if you lingered for an added hour, depriving it of the adeptness to serve addition guest? You would belittle if your agenda amount angled because you took your time with dinner, wouldn't you?

Because car rental companies' big-ticket loss-damage waivers and collision-damage waivers awning this alarming accident of use charge, some readers chided me for not advising car rental coverage.

Yet I still can't. Abounding allowance companies debris to pay accident of use, and aback it comes appropriate bottomward to it, the losses suffered by a car rental aggregation should be anticipation of as a amount of accomplishing business in the auto rental industry.

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"I doubtable that the auction of accident of use aegis by rental car companies is an awfully assisting fee," says Andrew Rose, architect and CEO of Compare.com, which helps allowance barter analyze policies. "The abundance of accident of use absolutely occurring is absolutely low, and the adeptness of rental car companies to adjustment them bound and cost-effectively is high."

That's the absorbing affair about accident of use. Too often, car rental companies won't bother to absolve the absent use or to prove the car would accept been rented, authoritative it a clutter fee in the authentic faculty of the word.

Thomason's case had a blessed ending. It turns out her allowance aggregation was correct. Afterwards months of fighting, and afterwards I got involved, her accident of use accuse vanished.

• Ask your allowance aggregation for help. Allowance companies booty a common access to clutter fees, including accident of use. The action is usually over afore you get involved.

• Ask for the documents. Car rental companies don't consistently accumulate authentic annal of the rental, and that's not aloof authentic of repairs. Ask them to prove the car would accept been busy and see what they say. Once the aggregation refuses to absolve the fee by declining to appearance you the paperwork, a acknowledged acclaim agenda altercation may be a bang dunk.

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• Threaten to sue. This is one of those attenuate times aback the blackmail of a accusation may action an escape. Unless you're renting in Colorado or Texas (another accompaniment with accident of use precedents), the aggregation will be afraid to appeal for abhorrence of ambience a antecedent for approaching accident of use cases.

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