A new report claims that companies like Lyft and Uber offer meager assistance to the loved ones of workers slain on the job.
provide third-party liability coverage for when drivers aren’t covered by their personal policies. They also include collision coverage in certain instances. After that, “Workers are on their own to figure out strategies and find resources to protect themselves,” says Cherri Murphy, a Lyft driver who coauthored the GWR report.
One evening this February, Agha Raza Ali received a phone call from his aunt. His 71-year-old uncle, Abdul Rauf Khan, was late coming home, and she was starting to worry. Khan and Ali ran a limousine service together in the Washington, DC, area, but after the pandemic hurt their business, Abdul decided to drive for Lyft instead of collecting unemployment. “I have my health and power, so I’m going to work,” Agha recalls him saying.
Agha and his family didn’t want to ask the community for money, so family members chipped in to support his wife and daughter. “He was the one who was working, so now we have to figure out how to survive,” says Ali. He thinks Lyft “should understand that somebody's working. They should be compensated if something like this happens, if he loses his life on the job.” Additionally, he would like to see the company require identity verification for all passengers.
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