E-Scooter Popularity Creates Comp Concerns

As the popularity of electric scooters surges — as well as reports of accidents among riders — the workers’ comp industry is starting to pay closer attention to the devices. “As e-scooters continue to proliferate, expect the number of accidents involving them to increase,” Alice Strombom, a workers’ comp attorney in Sacramento, California, wrote on her firm’s website. Workers’ comp typically wouldn’t cover an injury an employee sustains while commuting to work, but might cover injuries that occur during work-related travel, Susan Schaeche...