Terms Used In Indiana Code 24-4-9-22

  • damage: means physical damage or loss to a vehicle, including loss of use of the vehicle and the cost and expenses incident to any damage or loss. See Indiana Code 24-4-9-3
  • rental company: means any person engaged in the business of regularly making available, or arranging for another person to use, a vehicle under a rental agreement. See Indiana Code 24-4-9-7
  • renter: means a person who obtains the use of a vehicle from a rental company under a rental agreement. See Indiana Code 24-4-9-6
  • waiver: means any contract or contract provision, whether separate from or a part of a rental agreement, under which a rental company agrees to waive all claims against the renter for any physical or mechanical damage or other loss or liability, as described in section 13 of this chapter, to or in connection with the rented vehicle during the term of the rental agreement. See Indiana Code 24-4-9-2
   Sec. 22. A rental company may not engage in any unfair, deceptive, or coercive act to induce a renter to purchase a damage waiver or any other optional good or service.

As added by P.L.232-1989, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.19-2005, SEC.6.