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Watch: Managing Car Rental Risks, Liability, Legalities During a Pandemic
The webinar covered risk, insurance, and contract issues as they relate to employment and staffing, new rental types such as gig workers, and managing parked vehicles. It is now available online.
April 15, 2020
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On Thursday, April 23, at noon EDT, Auto Rental News hosted a webinar “Managing Car Rental Risks, Liability, and Legalities During a Pandemic.” It is now available for viewing.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced car rental businesses to rethink employment, operations, and business models. Yet new opportunities to keep cars on the road — or ground them in unprecedented fashion — come with inherent risks and legalities to manage.
In this one-hour webinar, our panel of experts addressed:
Employment issues regarding furloughs, sick leave policies, and handling ill staff
Managing risk, insurance, and contracts when renting to new groups such as commercial customers, gig workers, and under 25 renters
State-to-state insurance obligations regarding parked vehicles
How to work with insurance carriers during this crisis
Regulatory issues that may (or may not) have changed as a result of the pandemic
The speaker panel consisted of: Rick Alaniz of Alaniz and Associates, LLP, a prominent labor and employment law attorney for over 40 years; Leslie Pujo, an attorney with Plave Koch specializing in vehicle use law, contracts, and franchising; and Teresa Quale, executive director of Sonoran National Insurance Group.
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