2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 24. Insurance
431. Insurance Code
431:10C-802 Insurance coverage during car-sharing period.

§431:10C-802 Insurance coverage during car-sharing period. (a) A peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall ensure that during each car-sharing period, the shared car is insured under a motor vehicle insurance policy that provides:

(1) Primary insurance coverage for each shared car available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program in amounts no less than four times the amounts set forth in section 431:10C-301(b) for death, bodily injury, and property damage per accident, and costs of defense outside the limits;

(2) Primary insurance coverage for each shared car available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program for personal injury protection coverage that meets the minimum coverage amounts required by section 431:10C-103.5; and

(3) The following optional coverages, which any named insured may elect to reject or purchase, that provides primary coverage for each shared car available and used through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program:

(A) Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverages as provided in section 431:10C-301, which shall be equal to the primary liability limits specified in this section; provided that uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage offers shall provide for written rejection of the coverages as provided in section 431:10C-301;

(B) Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage stacking options as provided in section 431:10C-301; provided that the offer of the stacking options shall provide for written rejection as provided in section 431:10C-301;

(C) An offer of required optional additional insurance coverages as provided in section 431:10C-302; and

(D) In the event the only named insured under the motor vehicle insurance policy issued pursuant to this section is the peer-to-peer car-sharing program, the insurer or the peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall:

(i) Disclose the coverages in writing to the shared car driver;

(ii) Disclose to the shared car driver in writing that all optional coverages available may not have been purchased under sections 431:10C-301 and 431:10C-302; and

(iii) Obtain a written acknowledgement from the shared car driver of receipt of the written disclosures required in paragraphs (1) and (2). The standard disclosure forms used in paragraphs (1) and (2), and every modification of forms intended to be used, shall be filed with the commissioner within fifteen days of providing the disclosure to the shared car driver. The insurer or the peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall also send to the shared car driver every modified disclosure form within fifteen days of the filing of the modified disclosure form and comply with paragraph (3). The disclosures and acknowledgement may be sent and received by electronic means.

(b) If insurance maintained by a shared car owner or shared car driver in accordance with subsection (a) has lapsed, contains an exclusion for peer-to-peer car-sharing, or does not provide the required coverage, insurance maintained by a peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall provide the coverage required by subsection (a) beginning with the first dollar of a claim and shall have the duty to defend the claim.

(c) Coverage under a motor vehicle insurance policy maintained by the peer-to-peer car-sharing program shall not be dependent on another motor vehicle insurer first denying a claim. [L 2022, c 56, pt of §2, §5; am L 2023, c 210, § §2, 3]