'Rogue oBike': Sharebike company refuses to pay after Tesla smash
By Ben Grubb
19 March 2018
The founder of a luxury chauffeur service in Sydney has claimed a sharebike rammed into one of her Teslas in the city, causing approximately $6000 worth of damage.
Making matters worse, the Singapore-based company behind the bicycle in question, oBike, has so far refused to provide its insurance details either to Pia Peterson's chauffeur company Evoke (backed by technology entrepreneur Simon Hackett) or her insurer.
No one was riding the oBike at the time it rammed into the Tesla, according to Mrs Peterson, potentially putting the responsibility of the crash into question given it could be classed as an "act of God"; used by insurers to describe incidents for which no person can be held responsible.
This tornado damage to an Illinoishome could be considered an "act of God" for insurance purposes in the United States, if the insurance policy did not specifically account for tornadoes.
In legal usage throughout the English-speaking world, an act of God is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, for which no person can be held responsible. An act of God may amount to an exception to liability in contracts (as under the Hague–Visby Rules); or it may be an "insured peril" in an insurance policy.
