Truckers and Insurers Form Partnership to Fight Tow Truck Scams
Insurers are teaming up with truckers to persuade state lawmakers to pass laws that they hope will cut down on fraud by tow truck operators.
The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud announced Monday that it has formed a partnership with the American Trucking Association and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association to focus policymakers’ attention on the problems.
Coalition Executive Director Matthew Smith said commercial trucking companies are frequently victimized by unscrupulous tow truck operators who charge outrageous fees. Smith said drivers are sometimes billed $20,000 or even $40,000 for a tow and are unable to get their vehicles off the tow operator’s lot unless they pay it.
Apr 06, 2021
A second state court in California has ruled that federal law does not preempt that law that would effectively outlaw the leased owner-operator model in the state.
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Another Calif. court opinion goes in favor of A.B. 5 applying to trucking
While the trucking industry’s larger case against California’s A.B. 5 law on motor carriers and owner-operators is still unfolding in a federal district court, a second state court in California has ruled that federal law does not preempt a law that would effectively outlaw the leased owner-operator model in the state.
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It was one of the searing images of the rioting in downtown Chicago last summer: a man wearing a Joker mask standing in front of a police sport-utility vehicle engulfed in flames.
The graffiti-strewn SUV was one of seven Chicago Police Department vehicles and one CTA vehicle torched in the Loop last May 30. More than 60 other arson fires were reported across the city over the next few days of anti-police rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a white police officer kept his knee on the neck of Floyd, who was Black.
The fires set downtown by rioters after Floyd’s death were only one element, though, in a year that saw a major increase in arson. Over the course of 2020, hundreds of other arson fires were reported in Chicago. The number of fires authorities deemed suspicious was up nearly 65% last year over 2019, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city crime data shows.