(a) A motor vehicle insurer that defends or indemnifies a liability claim against a shared car owner or shared car driver that is excluded under the terms of the shared car owner‘s or shared car driver’s policy shall have a right to seek to recover from the peer-to-peer car-sharing program or its motor vehicle insurer if the liability claim is made against the shared car owner or shared car driver for injury or damage that occurs during the car-sharing period.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-805

  • Car-sharing period: means the period of time that commences with the car-sharing delivery period or, if there is no delivery period, that commences with the car-sharing start time and, in either case, ends at the car-sharing termination time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
  • Injury: means accidental harm not resulting in death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
  • Insurer: means every person holding a valid certificate of authority to engage in the business of making contracts of motor vehicle insurance in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle of a type required to be registered under chapter 286, including a trailer attached to such a vehicle, but not including motorcycles and motor scooters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Owner: means a person who holds the legal title to a motor vehicle; except that in the case of a motor vehicle which is the subject of a security agreement or lease with a term of not less than one year with the debtor or lessee having the right to possession, such term means the debtor or lessee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-103
  • Peer-to-peer car-sharing: means the operation, use, or control of a motor vehicle by an individual other than the motor vehicle's owner through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
  • Peer-to-peer car-sharing program: means :

    (1) Any person who enables a shared car driver to identify, reserve, or use a shared car owned by a shared car owner; or
    (2) Any person who enables a shared car owner to describe, list, or make available a shared car for identification, reservation, or use by a shared car driver. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
  • Shared car: means a motor vehicle that is registered pursuant to chapter 286 and is not owned; controlled; operated; maintained; or managed by or registered, directly or indirectly through an affiliate, to the peer-to-peer car-sharing program; and is available for sharing through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
  • Shared car driver: means an individual who has been authorized to drive the shared car by the shared car owner under a car-sharing program agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
  • Shared car owner: means the registered owner of a shared car. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10C-801
(b) A motor vehicle insurer that pays personal injury protection benefits for injury sustained by an occupant of, or by a pedestrian when struck by, a shared car when the obligation to pay personal injury protection benefits is excluded under the shared car owner’s or shared car driver’s policy shall have the right to seek to recover from the peer-to-peer car-sharing program or its motor vehicle insurer if the injury occurs during the car-sharing period.
(c) A motor vehicle insurer that pays uninsured motorist benefits or underinsured motorist benefits for injury sustained by an occupant of a shared car when the obligation to pay uninsured motorist benefits or underinsured motorist benefits is excluded under the shared car owner’s or shared car driver’s policy shall have the right to seek to recover from the peer-to-peer car-sharing program or its motor vehicle insurer if the injury occurs during the car-sharing period.
(d) A motor vehicle insurer that pays a shared car owner for loss or damage to a shared car that is excluded under the comprehensive physical damage coverage or collision physical damage coverage of the shared car owner’s or shared car driver’s policy shall have the right to seek to recover from the peer-to-peer car-sharing program or its motor vehicle insurer if the loss or damage to the shared car occurs during the car-sharing period.

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