[blindlaw] Help with car rentals

[Rod Alcidonis, Esquire]

Most car rental companies have a specific department for booking rentals for 
individuals with disability. I have booked multiple cars under my name with 
a driver accompanying me at the time of pickup. When you call the number, 
you need to ask for that department, or Google the name of the company with 
disability rental in the search.

Rod
-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Greenblatt via blindlaw
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 4:05 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] Help with car rentals

I was wondering if anyone on this list knows the legality regarding car 
rental to persons with visual impairments. I'm in Westchester County New 
York and I heard of a gentleman who is vision impaired trying to rent a car 
for his cited daughter to drive. He was clear to both companies that he was 
not going to be driving the car himself but was going to get it purely for 
his daughter to drive them around. He was refused by both enterprise 
Rent-A-Car and Avis on two separate occasions. I am currently not working in 
New York and therefore have no access to legal research tools; I am hoping 
that someone could provide me with either case law or statute citations to 
the laws regarding car rental to persons with visual impairments. The 
gentleman was told by both car rental companies that it was against their 
policy to rent it to him due to his lack of sight. Thank you for any 
assistance with this matter.


Sincerely,
   Scott Greenblatt
sgreenblatt76 at gmail.com
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