Enterprise Faces Class Action Over Rental Insurance

Law360, New York (August 27, 2009) is reporting as follows: A former Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. customer has hit the rental car company with a class action alleging it fraudulently misrepresented the terms of its personal accident insurance benefit in its marketing and sale of the policy to potential renters over the past five years. Viktor Polyakov filed an amended class action Aug. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho on behalf of all renters who have purchased personal accident insurance with Enterprise and its Idaho-based subsidiary Enterprise of Utah since March 2005. The complaint, which claims that the company funneled customers' insurance fees into a subsidiary instead of using them to pay for legitimate insurance policies for renters, seeks certification of the proposed class, injunctive relief, punitive damages under the Idaho Consumer Protection Act, restitution and attorneys' fees. The case is Polyakov v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. et al., case number 09-cv-00408, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.