CAR RENTAL IN UTAH AFTER AN ACCIDENT
If your car is rendered undriveable by the crash you are entitled to a rental car while your car is being repaired.
If you are not able to use your car after the accident and you are not provided with a rental car you are entitled to an award of money for loss of use of property. Here is a summary of Utah Jury Instruction CV2011 which defines the law on this issue:
To compensate the owner of the property for the loss of use of the property, calculate the amount that you decide will restore the owner to the same position the owner was in prior to the damage. You may consider the following factors:
(1) the rental value of the property;
(2) the lost income, meaning the income the owner would likely have earned through using the property; and
(3) what the owner reasonably spent to decrease the damage.
References
Castillo v. Atlanta Casualty Co., 939 P.2d 1204, 1209 (Utah App. 1997).
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