Do you buy your car hire excess insurance from an independent provider?

When you do your local supermarket shopping you will see X product or Y product on the shelf for a price. If you suddenly arrived at the checkout and were told that you would have to pay an additional amount you would not be too happy

Car hire fuel costs and insurance excesses too high says Which report

Which the UK consumer watchdog issued a report on their website yesterday (2nd October 2011) saying “Car hire fuel costs and insurance excesses are too high.