Rideshare MDL Part 5 of 5
Two plaintiff verdicts have answered whether these cases have value. The harder question is whether a firm entering now is too late — or arriving just as the opportunity becomes easier to evaluate.
July 28, 2026
by Attorney Jeff Keiser
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Two plaintiff verdicts have answered whether these cases have value. The harder question is whether a firm entering now is too late — or arriving just as the opportunity becomes easier to evaluate.
The second Uber verdict settled one question and opened others: how far the company’s responsibility extends, and how much of its safety history a jury will be allowed to hear.
Inside the first Uber bellwether — the Phoenix federal trial — and how Uber’s internal safety infrastructure became the evidentiary battleground once motion practice met a real jury.
Motion practice is where a rideshare case either expands into a national one or gets cut down to a “one bad apple” story. How Uber narrows the theories, and what plaintiffs do about it.
We interviewed the offshore lead sellers who coach claimants, and they explained exactly how it works. Seven ways to spot a coached claimant. No email, no sign-up.
If you can’t say exactly where a rideshare claimant came from, they could have come from anywhere — including an offshore coaching ring. Why TrustedForm alone isn’t enough.