Not exact matches
Select the «
vehicle - only cover» policy with At Home, National Recovery and
Replacement Hire Car via Topcashback * and the premium, before any cashback, will be # 150.99 but once the cashback amount has been factored in — which is # 70 — this reduces the cost from # 150.99 / yr to # 80.99 (the amount after cashback).
Comprehensive RAC * «
vehicle - only cover», which includes «At Home», «National Recovery» (which will take you, your passengers and the car to your chosen destination) and «
Replacement Hire Car» is # 120.99 a year (if you go direct to the RAC *).
These options include a first party model of provision whereby the driver's own insurer provides the
replacement vehicle regardless of cost; a regulatory model intended to introduce the formal regulation of credit
hire providers which would permit the capping of costs and a ban on referral fees; an industry code of conduct which would build on the existing GTA; or a «competitive offer» model allowing the at - fault insurer to provide the
vehicle at lower cost if they can do so.
This is in direct contrast to the compensation system in France where the cost of
hiring a
replacement vehicle is only recoverable in exceptional circumstances and where a professional daily need can be shown.
What was argued was that DAS had provided the
replacement vehicle through Helphire and could have done so more cheaply than it did — by corporate
hire rates — and should have given credit for the introduction fee which Helphire might have paid to DAS or an associated DAS company.
Depending on your coverage the insurance company may also factor into the equation the cost of a rental car, so if your repairs are going to take a long - time even if the repair bill is lower than the total loss figure — the costs of providing you with a
hire car in the interim, may leave the insurer to decide that it's not worth pursuing the repair and instead they will pay out the
replacement cost of the
vehicle.