These guys are out of control and cause general ill will towards cyclists. Someone gets whacked by one of these guys (who knows probably once every 15 seconds) and there is no insurance? We are taking about money making business operating without any regard to what happens to innocent bystanders. While we are it throw in the pedicabs.

"...that with the exception of insurance, we have laws to stop these wantonly dangerous bicycle cowboys anyway. The problem is, they aren't enforced.

On the block referred to in my first post, cops could make 10 busts in a day, if they felt like it. But nah. It's easier to round up and jail a ragtag bunch of Time's Up demonstrators. Or ticket NYCC group rides to Nyack. Or demand they have a parade permit to ride together.

""Never give them an aspirin for an aching elbow when you can cut off the elbow.""
--Zawbonisch the Surgeon

Your Pal,
Ebenezer"

There is insurance for bike messengers and the like. Assuming that a business has liability insurance (which every business should), if you are hurt by a messenger or delivery person, you are able to sue his/her employer. As a general matter, any negligence that results in injury caused by an employee while performing his/her duties of employment, is chargeable to the employer.

So what if they have a law? What's to compell the restaruants to register their bikes?

I'd say half of delivery people are not authorized to work. They're already breaking the law by doing delivery in the first place and the owner of the establishment the same for hiring them. They aren't going to pay any attention to yet another law that they have to ignore.