[Magdalen] Called insurance; was Travel prayers again, and a Happy.

[P. Dan Brittain]

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:34 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Maybe it's just State Farm, but to qualify for car rental coverage, the
> event has to fall under either:
>
> -Collision (which this wasn't); or
> -Comprehensive (fire, theft, vandalism, falling object; none of which this
> was).
>
> But I still pressed with the idea, sure, I was technically negligent (my
> car was not quite yet at the RECOMMENDED 90,000 miles for timing belt
> replacement), but still, who wouldn't call an engine failure at 65 mph on a
> freeway at 7,000 ft with just enough light left in the afternoon to make me
> not regret I didn't have a flashlight in the car and a wait of 1.5 hours
> for a tow truck that had to make a special trip an hour hence to drop us
> off in another city ... NOT at least in SOME sense, an "accident"?  Seems
> I'm not the first to ask said question.
>
> I've got longevity with State Farm, so I'm not switching.  But clearly
> there might be something out there with at least slightly better coverage.
>



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