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Re:Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds by lightbritefight on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:40PM (#20425173)
Bird most likey is the "employer." They have a gig economy model where people are paid a rate per scooter to pick them up, charge them and drop them off at a specific location.

Its doubtful the truck driver was an employee of bird, but its also likely they were only moving the scooters because of this model. That sounds like enough of a reason to add them to the suit that will also likely hit the driver.

Re:Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds by bredren on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:42PM (#20425504)
Yes—if Bird’s business model requires the transportation of the vehicles by contractors, Bird is responsible for requiring parameters of safe transport.
Re:Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds by delinka on Saturday July 13, 2019 @09:05AM (#20427857)
In such a case, I would agree. I was thinking "some random vehicle (perhaps a scooter thief) had a Bird scooter fall off."