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Uber Pays Australian Taxi Drivers $178 Million in Settlement

Mar 18 2024 // Uber agreed to pay A$271.8 million ($178 million) to compensate thousands of taxi drivers in Australia who claimed they lost income when the ride-share company entered the local market. Uber Technologies Inc. settled the...

Suit Says OnStar, LexisNexis Shared Driving Data With Insurers, Spiking Rates

Mar 15 2024 // Do motorist-assistance systems like GM’s OnStar feed data to auto insurers, resulting in higher premiums for some drivers? A south Florida man says indeed, they do, and has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...

Court Upholds Kansas Law Banning Changes to Transgender Driver’s Licenses

Mar 13 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge ruled Monday that the state isn’t violating transgender residents’ rights under the state constitution by refusing to change their driver’s licenses to reflect their...

Tesla, Rivals Get Low Marks for Automated-Driving Technology

Mar 13 2024 // Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self Driving technology and nine other assisted-driving systems marketed by major automakers received “poor” ratings from the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in a...

Airport Driver Who Died When Forklift Tipped Was Not Wearing Seat Belt: OSHA

Mar 12 2024 // The Aug. 29, 2023, death of a forklift operator at Boston’s Logan International Airport may have been prevented if his employer had ensured proper safeguards for operating and maintaining forklifts, an Occupational...

Michigan Town to Pay $320K to Japanese Man Wrongly Accused of Drunken Driving

Mar 5 2024 // A Michigan village has agreed to a $320,000 settlement with a man from Japan who was wrongly accused of drunken driving after a police officer badly misread a breath test, court records show. Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on...

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