Services included
If selected, the service may include:
- Contacting your lender, lessor, or account servicer to request available payoff statements, finance agreements, payment histories, account information, product-cancellation information, and other documents you would otherwise be responsible for providing;
- Contacting your primary motor-vehicle insurer, insurance agent, or claim administrator to request available proof-of-loss documents, settlement statements, valuation reports, deductible information, payment confirmations, and other insurance documents you would otherwise be responsible for providing;
- Contacting the selling dealer or another authorized source to request available purchase agreements, buyer's orders, vehicle equipment information, window stickers, build information, or other vehicle-sale documents you would otherwise be responsible for providing;
- Organizing documents received through these requests and adding them to your electronic claim file; and
- Providing electronic status notifications and notifying you of documents that remain missing or unavailable.
The $24.00 fee compensates the GAP Provider for voluntarily performing these document-retrieval and claim-concierge tasks on your behalf. It is not a fee for filing, investigating, adjudicating, approving, denying, or paying your GAP claim.
Document-retrieval authorization and permission
By selecting this optional service, I expressly authorize and direct the GAP Provider, its claim administrator, and its authorized service providers to contact and request information and documents from my lender, lessor, account servicer, primary motor-vehicle insurer, insurance agent, claim administrator, selling dealer, and other persons or organizations reasonably believed to possess documents relevant to my GAP claim.
I authorize these persons and organizations to release the requested claim-related information and documents to the GAP Provider and its authorized service providers. I authorize the GAP Provider to receive, verify, copy, store, organize, use, and share the information as reasonably necessary to administer, evaluate, resolve, audit, or review my GAP claim and comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
This authorization includes permission to obtain available:
- Finance agreements, payoff statements, account balances, payment histories, and financed-product information;
- Primary-insurance proof-of-loss documents, total-loss valuations, settlement statements, deductible information, and payment records; and
- Vehicle-purchase, equipment, identification, title, registration, and dealer records relevant to the claim.
A photocopy, electronic copy, or electronically signed version of this authorization may be accepted and relied upon as if it were the original. This authorization remains effective until the final resolution of my claim, including any requested reconsideration or appeal, unless I revoke it in writing.
I understand that I may revoke this authorization before the requested services are completed. Revocation will not affect documents previously requested, obtained, or used. If I revoke this authorization, I will be responsible for obtaining and submitting any remaining required documents myself.
Service limitations
Selecting this service may reduce the time and effort required to assemble a complete claim file, but it does not guarantee that a third party will provide a requested document, that the claim will be approved, or that the claim will be completed by a particular date.
Selecting or declining this service will not change my coverage, benefit calculation, claim priority, appeal rights, or any applicable claim-handling deadline. Complete claims are evaluated under the same GAP Agreement terms and claim-handling standards regardless of the submission method selected.
The $24.00 fee will be collected separately and will not be deducted from or reduce any GAP benefit. If the GAP Provider does not initiate the selected document-retrieval services or is unable to obtain at least one requested document, the fee will be refunded.