(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) E-scooters have caused rage in San Francisco (which only recently allowed them back on the roads) and a legal tiff in Santa Monica. Now they’re set to hit the streets of Sacramento. I asked Thom Rickert, an emerging risks specialist with Trident Public Solutions, which insures governments and other public entities, for his thoughts. Electronic scooters, he said, are part of an emerging realm of the share economy: the complicated liability economy.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2019 13:52 UTC