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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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Watch Out for Bicyclists Print
Wednesday, May 15 2019

A Massachusetts man is being sued by a bicyclist after his Uber driver double parked in a bike lane, causing the vehicle door to trap the bicyclist when the rider was exiting his Uber ride.

Jake Lester opened the back door to get out of his Uber and in doing so a cyclist was pinned between the Uber and a parked car. The cyclist is now suing both Lester and the Uber driver for damages ($4,000 in medical bills) and fees.

"Obviously, I knew we were double parked but wasn't aware that we were parked in a bike lane," Lester said.

According to news reports, Lester, who didn't have a car and thus no insurance of his own, was surprised to learn he would not be covered under Uber's insurance policy. But Uber's insurance company - James River Insurance - sent him a letter denying him coverage saying, "You do not qualify as an insured under the James River policy... Opening a door into a bicylist does not constitute 'use' of a covered auto."

It's "just mind-blowing that they're taking a step back from this and saying they have no responsibility," Lester said.

Under Massachusetts law, rideshare companies are required to maintain a million dollars in liability insurance for "bodily injury to others" while their drivers are engaged in a ride. Uber maintains that Jake Lester isn't covered.

"It just seems ridiculous, frankly, for a company as big as Uber to deny a rider coverage like that," Lester said. "If I'm getting in an Uber, I'm putting my financial security at risk. Who knows what could happen and Uber's not going to provide the coverage."

Source: wcvb.com

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