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<p>[QUOTE="TallJoe, post: 11991889, member: 180515"]Check this with your insurance agent first!</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember a podcast discussing it a while ago. I think it was one of those podcast co-hosts that used Kevin Rutheford's site. So, if I remember the discussion correctly, it was explained like this:</p><p>Once your authority is active, it means that your insurance is active and then it may become problematic when you lease on to someone else and in effect use their insurance for liability and cargo, while yours remains still active. In case of an issue, you have two active insurance carriers, and the one from the company you lease onto may see it and refuse the claim, wanting you to use your own insurance, which in turn, seeing that you operated under someone else's authority when the issue happened, may tell them to pound sand too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TallJoe, post: 11991889, member: 180515"]Check this with your insurance agent first! I remember a podcast discussing it a while ago. I think it was one of those podcast co-hosts that used Kevin Rutheford's site. So, if I remember the discussion correctly, it was explained like this: Once your authority is active, it means that your insurance is active and then it may become problematic when you lease on to someone else and in effect use their insurance for liability and cargo, while yours remains still active. In case of an issue, you have two active insurance carriers, and the one from the company you lease onto may see it and refuse the claim, wanting you to use your own insurance, which in turn, seeing that you operated under someone else's authority when the issue happened, may tell them to pound sand too.[/QUOTE]
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