Short Term Auto Insurance - Auto Policies For Temporary Drivers

When your own car is out of commission and you will have to drive another car temporarily, you would still want to be protected from unforeseen circumstances resulting from your use of such vehicle albeit on a temporary basis. Luckily for you, there are car insurance companies that offer short term auto insurance coverages. A temporary car insurance coverage or a short term auto insurance coverage gives you the same kind of coverage that your own car insurance policy provides but only for a specific number of days for which you will be using another car. Such a short term insurance coverage also works well when a temporary driver will be operating your car for a few days. Instead of naming the temporary driver in your existing car insurance policy, you can take out a short term policy so that the temporary driver's specifics do not get into your car insurance policy permanently and do not affect your car insurance premium rating.
A short term car insurance policy could either be a comprehensive coverage or a third party liability coverage. These are the same kinds of coverage that you would most likely have on your existing auto insurance coverage. Comprehensive coverages, while they do not necessarily cover all contingencies, indemnify the insured for more coverage items than a third party liability coverage. It covers not only accidental injury and property damage to a third party but also those damages on yourself or a temporary driver who is named insured and on the insured vehicle. A comprehensive auto insurance coverage would cover other perils as collision, theft, vandalism, extreme weather, and fire among others. Even those expenses for own damages that are not caused by the insured temporary driver himself are covered under a comprehensive policy. Third party liability is only limited in coverage to include only those damages that are caused by the temporary driver to another person or property.