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Torts/Personal Injury

Nov. 13, 2026

After 'extinction event' threat, plaintiffs lawyers confront new rideshare rules

Attorneys at the CAOC conference said a compromise with Uber averted sweeping restrictions on contingency fees but left plaintiffs lawyers facing new limits on medical expense recoveries and fresh challenges in pursuing rideshare companies.

Plaintiffs attorneys who fought off what they called an "extinction event" for their practices now face a different challenge: adapting to new limits on medical expense recoveries while pursuing injury claims against rideshare companies.

Speaking Friday at the Consumer Attorneys of California conference in San Francisco, Christopher Dolan and P. Christopher Ardalan described the political battle over an Uber-backed ballot initiative that threatened to reshape personal in...

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