October 22, 2024
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must do more to address ergonomic hazards at warehouses and delivery companies, where the number of injured workers in the growing sector are on the rise, a new report advises. The Government …
January 3, 2024
The New York workers’ compensation fund for black car drivers was within its authority to impose a 2.5% surcharge on noncash tips that passengers paid to drivers, a three-justice panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled on …
November 16, 2023
New York City officials say retailers and food delivery companies must do more to halt the proliferation of unsafe e-bike and e-scooter batteries, after a fire blamed on an electric scooter`s lithium ion battery killed three people over the weekend. …
December 28, 2021
Global insurance broker Aon and CarrierHQ, an Indianapolis-based portal for transportation fleets that offers insurance programs and other services, have launched Last Mile Delivery insurance program. The program provides operators in the last mile delivery space with custom and continuous …
January 15, 2021
Grocery delivery company Instacart said on Thursday it would pay $25 to its over half-a-million gig workers if they chose to take time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The company, which has been lobbying government agencies for its delivery …
February 7, 2013
The Upton Group, LLC is expanding its business to cover pizzerias nationwide through PizzaInsurance.com. Previously the company focused on insuring Domino’s Pizza, one of the nation’s largest pizza chains. Owned and operated by The Upton Group, LLC, pizzainsurance.com will serve …
January 16, 2013
The United States said on Tuesday it plans to negotiate an agreement with the European Union, Japan and 18 other economies to remove trade and investment barriers in services ranging from finance to express delivery. Washington, the 27-nation EU and …