Latest Ridesharing Headlines
All the headlines from our Ridesharing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
TNC Rain Dance Shows How NCOIL Is All Wet
Jul 20 2015 // “Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.” – Unknown Cowboy aphorisms have a lot to offer contemporary culture, in spite of their dubious origins. The National Conference of Insurance...
Judge in California Says Uber Must Face Taxi Suit over Safety Claims
Jul 20 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over its claims to being safer than taxis. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco on Friday allowed the case to proceed, finding that the app-based ridesharing...
California Agents Get Creative to Sell Rideshare Endorsement
Jul 20 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month or two has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May. Lamm started spreading the...
GEICO Expands Ridesharing Coverage to Georgia
Jul 20 2015 // GEICO has continued the expansion of its new auto insurance product for drivers of transportation network companies (TNC) with the addition of Georgia. GEICO offers ridesharing coverage through GEICO Commercial for less...
Uber to Cease Operations in Florida’s Broward County
Jul 20 2015 // The popular ridesharing service Uber has announced it is leaving Broward County, Florida. The company said July 6 that it will withdraw completely from the county on July 31. Uber had previously agreed to withdraw from the...
Uber Driver Arrested in Florida City for Violating Ordinance
Jul 17 2015 // Police in Key West, Fla., have arrested an Uber driver following a crackdown on unlicensed vehicle-for-hire drivers. Spokeswoman Alyson Crean told the Miami Herald that 51-year-old Martin Maness was arrested July 10 on two...
Labor Department’s 6-Part Test for Classifying Employees, Independent Contractors
Jul 16 2015 // The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a blog post with new guidance on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), an issue that has attracted renewed...
Uber to Settle Lawsuit Over California Girl’s Crosswalk Death
Jul 16 2015 // Uber is settling lawsuit with the family of a 6-year-old girl who died when a company driver hit her with his SUV. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the company is paying the family an undisclosed settlement for the 2013...
California Judge Fines Uber $7.3 M, and Suspends Service
Jul 16 2015 // Uber has been fined $7.3 million for refusing to give California regulators information about the ride-hailing company’s business practices, including accident details and how accessible vehicles are to disabled...
NYC Taxi Regulator Sides With Uber in Employee vs. Contractor Debate
Jul 14 2015 // New York considers drivers for ride-hailing car services such as Uber freelance workers rather than employees, according to the city’s chief taxi regulator, a policy that supports the company’s business...
Uber Reaches Interim Deal to Operate in Burlington, Vermont
Jul 14 2015 // The city of Burlington, Vermont, and the Uber ride-hailing service have signed an agreement to allow Uber to temporarily operate in the city and at the airport, the mayor’s office announced on July 10. Under the...
Uber Fighting California Driver Lawsuit
Jul 10 2015 // Uber is arguing that a lawsuit filed by drivers should not proceed as a class action with the ride service citing statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are...
California Agents Get Creative to Sell Rideshare Endorsement
Jul 9 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May. Lamm started spreading the word...
Uber Says ‘So Long’ to One of Florida’s Largest Counties
Jul 8 2015 // The popular ridesharing service Uber has announced it is leaving Broward County. The company announced July 6 that it will withdraw completely from the county on July 31. Uber had previously agreed to withdraw from the...
Farmers Introduces Rideshare Coverage in Utah
Jul 6 2015 // Farmers Insurance has launched what is believed to be the state’s first rideshare insurance coverage designed to provide seamless coverage for ridesharing drivers in Utah. The coverage comes less than two months...
Bill Allowing Uber to Stay in South Carolina Is Officially Law
Jul 6 2015 // Uber is staying in South Carolina. After the transportation network company (TNC) was halted by the state’s Public Service Commission in January and then granted a temporary license through June 30, South Carolina...
Declarations
Jul 6 2015 // Montana Microcosm “What we are seeing in Montana is a reflection of what is happening around the world. Temperatures are increasing.” —Montana State University researcher Fabian Menalled said widespread...
NYC Legislators Seek to Put Limits on Rideshare Vehicles During Study
Jul 2 2015 // Staff and drivers for ride-hailing company Uber gathered outside City Hall on Tuesday, June 30, to protest legislation that would put limits on for-hire vehicles while the city conducts a study on whether the sharp growth...
Bill Allowing Uber to Stay in South Carolina is Officially Law
Jul 2 2015 // Uber is staying in South Carolina. After the transportation network company (TNC) was halted by the state’s Public Service Commission in January and then granted a temporary license through June 30, South Carolina...
New Insurance Rules for California Ridesharing in Effect Today
Jul 1 2015 // A new law requiring that ridesharing drivers and companies have liability insurance coverage during all three periods in which they use the ride-sharing application goes into effect today. The rules are in effect under...
