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Uber Technologies Inc.\u2018s last minute deal with the Consumer Attorneys of California is an unexpected compromise in a long-brewing fight between the ride-share company and the plaintiff\u2019s bar bringing Uber-involved car accident and sexual assault cases. <\/p>\n

The agreement signed into law<\/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Thursday will avoid potentially existential risks for both parties as they faced competing California ballot initiatives calling for a sweeping expansion of liability for Uber or the decimation of the legal fee model for personal injury lawyers.<\/p>\n

The deal will cap medical damages in car crash cases that involve liens on treatment for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uber Technologies Inc.\u2018s last minute deal with the Consumer Attorneys of California is an unexpected compromise in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12875,7,9,8,3993,153339],"class_list":["post-379100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ballot-initiatives","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-ride-hailing","tag-transportation-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}