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A New Carrier Joins Rideshare Insurance Market Along With Allstate, Liberty Mutual
A new carrier has joined the rideshare insurance market, offering coverage to Lyft drivers in 11 states. At the same time, ridesharing firm Lyft's drivers now also have access to coverage from ...
Ridehailing Services Drive Up Traffic Deaths: University Research
While the era of app-based ridehailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, has been credited with keeping more impaired drivers off the road, increasing job opportunities and offering new levels of ...
Lyft Releases Self-Driving Tech Data in Bid to Speed Its Development
Lyft Inc. is making research data on self-driving technology available to the public in a bid to accelerate the development of robotic cars, which is seen as critical to the ride-hailing giant's ...
Experts: Uber, Lyft and Shared Owners Will Dominate Future Auto Sales
Ride-hailing apps like those of Uber Technologies and Lyft Inc are expected to alter the state of car ownership towards subscription-based services and shared ownership, auto industry experts said at ...
Lyft Reveals Impressive Array of Risk Factors in IPO Filing
The risk-factors section of an IPO prospectus is a bit like a transcript of a chief financial officer's worst nightmares. For Lyft Inc., which filed publicly for an initial public offering Friday, ...
Lyft and Uber Build Their Own Captive Insurers In Hawaii
Ride-sharing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. seem to have found the same solution for dealing with the risks of managing millions of drivers on the road: Creating their own insurers in ...
The Latest Launches From Marsh and Travelers
Marsh debuted what it is billing as a "next-generation online cyber self-assessment tool." Travelers will start providing U.S. auto claims services for a major ridesharing startup.
Recent Crashes Are Slowing Self-Driving Automobile Development
A series of high-profile accidents involving self-driving cars are slowing the mad rush into the autonomous vehicles business, according to a report issued Wednesday. The accidents, some of them ...
Auto Insurance Startup Root Expands, Links With Lyft on Car Rental Alternative
Startup telematics-based auto insurer Root is now offering rental coverage in partnership with ridesharing firm Lyft. For policyholders with short-term needs for alternate transportation after an ...