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Senate amends law to make rental cars cheaper by shifting primary liability to insured drivers
Summary
Senators adopted an amendment and passed S.2603 to let insured renters use their own auto coverage as primary financial responsibility, a change supporters said will reduce rental rates in Massachusetts, an outlier state on the issue.
The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday approved S.2603, titled "An act relative to affordable car rentals," moving the state toward the insurance practice used in most other states that makes a renter's personal auto insurance primary for damage they cause while driving a rental vehicle.
Senator Julian Cyr (D-Cape and Islands) urged colleagues to support the bill and framed it as a consumer-cost measure. "This legislation brings us in line with the majority of states by saying that if you're insured and you cause an accident in a…
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