Effective today all Chase cards, Visa or Mastercard, now offer free car rental CDW insurance worldwide!
Gone are the exclusions on rentals in countries like Israel, Ireland, and Jamaica.
If you renting a car outside of your home country you will receive free primary coverage on rentals of up to 31 days, so Chase will cover you even if you have your own insurance without having to file a claim with your own insurance.
Additionally Chase will now cover personal rentals on business cards when renting outside of your home country.
Note that in Israel even if you decline the CDW they still require to buy liability insurance. But you’ll still save money by having a card that provides its own CDW coverage. Israeli car rental agencies are notorious for charging over and over again for the same scratch. Even if you buy the CDW from the car rental agency you’ll still have to pay for the scratch as they have a deductible on their own CDW coverage. When you use your Chase card and decline the car rental agency’s CDW coverage you’ll have zero deductible.
Thanks Dan!