Legal Issues to Watch in 2023 & Beyond
Recent legal trends affecting car rental operators include qualifying drivers, records compliance, and privacy laws.
Recent legal trends affecting car rental operators include qualifying drivers, records compliance, and privacy laws.
The issue involved Ford Explorer and Nissan Altima vehicles owned by Hertz between 2018 and 2020. The recalls included latches and locks.
The car rental giant will pay $168 million, resolving 95% of its hundreds of claims relating to vehicle theft reporting.
The Preventing Auto Recycling Thefts (PART) Act can help address catalytic converter thefts by marking each converter with a traceable identification number and establishing these thefts as a criminal offense.
The lawsuit said that five named customers were stopped in the past year by police and held at gunpoint for renting and driving vehicles that Hertz incorrectly reported as stolen.
An Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee was arrested after stealing seven vehicles from Enterprise’s storage lots at Memphis International Airport.
The owner of a rental company in Illinois is under investigation by the secretary of state’s office for insurance fraud.
Recent cases in Florida came to differing conclusions, though legislation was enacted to address one of them.
Residents in Norman, Okla., could pay a rental car tax to help fund a local sports commission.
As technologies such as telematics and electric vehicles constantly evolve, car rental companies must keep up with changing legalities surrounding state rental laws, privacy considerations, and customer disclosures.
South Carolina’s Rep. Wendell Gilliard got a bill from Avis Budget Group for more than $20,000 in vehicle damage. A police investigation discovered that an employee had taken the car after the congressman returned it and caused $20,000 worth of damage.
The court case represented 230 Hertz customers who claim they were wrongly accused and arrested. Most of the cases appear to have been created by Hertz's computer system that wasn't able to locate a car or if a customer's payment didn't go through.
A small business owner weighs in on the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate ruling.
In Nevada’s Clark County, 8% to 12% of fatal crashes involve a luxury rental vehicle, and 95% of those crashes involve impairment.
As of Dec. 6, all international travelers entering the U.S. will be required to be tested for COVID-19 one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure.
The event consisted of networking, ACRA meetings, guest speakers, an ACRA political action committee reception, and meetings with U.S. representatives and senators on issues affecting the car rental industry.
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