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Rutherford County bus contractors warn of insurance gap after contract change
Summary
A contractor raised concerns at the Budget, Finance and Investment Committee meeting that the county’s four-year school bus contract no longer includes a group liability insurance policy for contractors, potentially shifting significant risk and cost onto individual vendors and risking service disruptions.
A contractor told the Rutherford County Budget, Finance and Investment Committee on May 8 that the county’s school bus contracts no longer include the group liability insurance that historically covered contractors, and that change could shift substantial financial risk onto each vendor.
The comment came during the committee’s public-comment period when Kim Erp of Las Casas addressed the committee about transportation contractors. Erp said the county had previously included liability insurance in the four-year contract and now that coverage is being excluded for the current contract cycle. “The liability…
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