Geller v. Uber Kills Rideshare Arbitration Clause in Illinois Wrongful-Death Cases
Geller v. Uber Technologies (Ill. S. Ct., Sept. 24, 2026) eliminates rideshare defendants' arbitration-clause defense in wrongful-death cas…
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Accidentes de auto
Liability, UM/UIM, MIST defense trends
ADAS Failure in Passenger Cars: Building the Product Defect Claim Alongside Driver Negligence
Advanced driver assistance systems are standard equipment on most new passenger vehicles, and their failure modes are creating a new catego…
Road Rage Crashes: Intentional-Act Exclusions and the Fight for Coverage
When a crash starts as a road rage incident, the at-fault driver's carrier will reach for the intentional-act exclusion and the case can lo…
The Vehicle's Black Box: EDR Evidence and the 2026 Pre-Crash Data Expansion
Every passenger car already carries an event data recorder. Understanding what it captures, how to preserve it, and how the 2026 NHTSA rule…
Retiro NHTSA 26V539000 y SB 371 de California: informe sobre la exposición legal en casos de lesiones personales por accidentes de auto
La campaña 26V539000 de la NHTSA, emitida el 17 de septiembre de 2026, retira del mercado más de 300,000 SUV compactas de GM por fallas en…
Defeating the MIST Defense: Plaintiff Strategies for Low-Impact Soft-Tissue Cases
Insurance carriers and defense firms deploy the minor impact, soft tissue defense systematically against rear-end and low-speed collision c…
Pedestrian Knockdown Cases: Crosswalk Yield Duties, Comparative Fault, and Catastrophic Damages
Pedestrian-vehicle collision cases produce some of the most serious injuries in PI practice and some of the highest comparative fault dispu…
Suing the Government When the Road Caused the Crash
Pothole impacts, drainage washouts, missing signage, and failed sight-line design all generate auto-accident claims against public entities…
DTN Airbag Inflator Recall, Broker Liability, and the 2026 Auto PI Docket
NHTSA's April 2026 compelled DTN airbag inflator recall, the first forced recall in two decades, has been linked to 11 U.S. deaths across 1…
Drug-Impaired Driving Crashes: DUID, Cannabis Impairment, and the Liability Case
Driving under the influence of drugs produces serious crashes, but the evidentiary framework is fundamentally different from alcohol-impair…
Teen Driver Crashes: Negligent Entrustment, Family Purpose Doctrine, and Parental Liability
A teenager's fault is usually easy to prove. Reaching the parents and their policy limits requires understanding negligent entrustment, the…
Delivery Driver Crashes: Platform Liability and the Coverage Framework
Amazon Flex, DoorDash, and Instacart crashes follow a multi-period coverage model that differs sharply from rideshare law. Here is what pla…