Source: Michelle Crouch, CreditCards.com

For years, travel and financial experts have been urging us to avoid it, calling it a rip-off, a scam, a way for car rental companies to prop up their profits by preying on our fears. Don’t automatically refuse extra rental car insurance coverage

But these days, you better do your homework before you give car rental insurance the brush-off.

Rental car companies started tacking extra fees onto damages you owe if you have an accident. In a growing number of cases, those charges aren’t covered by your personal auto insurance—or your credit card.

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