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Uber and Lyft are lauded as making streets safer by keeping drunk drivers off the road. In fact, Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) released a report in 2015 that said, “Uber is having a meaningful and positive impact on mindsets and the rate of drunk driving.

With the return of app-based electric scooter rentals to San Francisco and the proliferation of electric scooters and bikes across the Bay Area and throughout the country, officials are reporting increasing numbers of accidents involving electric bikes and scooters.

The e-cigarette industry adamantly promotes vaping as a safe alternative to smoking regular cigarettes. Not true, according to a study published in the American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. The study used mice to compare the relative damage to lungs when exposed to regular cigarettes, e-juice with and without nicotine, and e-juice with both nicotine and flavor-adding chemicals. The study found significant signs of increasing lung damage in mice exposed to e-juice, especially those where e-juice was flavored.

Please join Levin Simes e-cig and vape lawyer Angela Nehmens at Mass Torts Made Perfect. On Friday October 5th at 12:35pm, Angela will run the e-cigarette breakout session and present on the current status of e-cigarette and vape mod litigation.

October 2nd, 2018: Juul Labs, the manufacturer of the popular Juul vape, had their offices raided by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a surprise inspection. The FDA seized thousands of pages of documents related to marketing of Juul products. Juul Labs faces accusations and lawsuits that they illegally marketed their products to minors.

The research article “Grave Fraudulence in Medical Device Research: A Narrative Review of the PIN Seeding Study for the Pinnacle Hip System” was published in December 2017 in the journal Accountability in Research.

An April 18, 2019 trial date has been set in a vape explosion lawsuit brought by Levin Simes LLP on behalf of Plaintiff Cody Kadow who suffered serious injuries as a result of poorly designed vape battery products.

A jury in St. Louis found Johnson & Johnson responsible for the ovarian cancer of 22 women after a Missouri state court trial. The month long trial in St. Louis Circuit Court resulted in a $25 million per plaintiff award for damages, and an additional $4.15 billion in punitive damages against Johnson and Johnson.

A California bill introduced by Assembly Member Quirk in 2016 to promote electric cars, AB-33, has been modified to create and sell new bonds. The proceeds of the bonds would go toward covering Pacific Gas & Electric’s legal liability after being found responsible for starting the October 2017 Northern California wildfires. Wildfire lawsuit settlements could add up to billions of dollars.