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Course Details

Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Personal Injury and Med Mal

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, February 19, 2020

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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This CLE course will explore one of the fastest and most recently developing areas of personal injury liability: e-scooters. Whether the potential client has been harmed while riding an e-scooter or was harmed by someone riding an e-scooter, the client will only hire an attorney who grasps the possible bases for liability and potentially responsible parties.

Faculty

Daniel Flanzig
Founding Partner
Flanzig and Flanzig, LLP

Mr. Flanzig is the firm's lead trial attorney litigating significant personal injury cases in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, the lower Hudson Valley as well as in the Eastern and Southern Districts of the United States District Courts. He has obtained multiple verdicts and settlements in excess of a Million Dollars on behalf of the firm's clients.

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Tamara Kurtzman
Founder
TMK

Ms. Kurtzman served as a partner in a California general-practice law firm specializing in corporate representation where she co-chaired, among other divisions, both the firm's commercial contracts and entertainment law practices. Then, as today, she continues to diligently represent a variety of corporate clients ranging from local start-up entities to well-established corporations with interests throughout the world.

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Paul Zukerberg
Partner
Zukerberg & Halperin, PLLC

Mr. Zukerberg is a plaintiff’s trial lawyer who has taken over 200 cases to verdict, in both state and federal courts, in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. He has won major victories for his clients in the fields of brain injury, personal injury, defamation, federal statutory interpretation, evidence, employment law, and civil rights.

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Description

E-scooters (whether Lime, Bird, Volt, Spin, or another brand) are the latest trend in urban mobility. E-scooters--easy to secure, pickup, and dropoff--exploded onto the scene in the last few years in almost 100 U.S. cities. Not surprisingly, an increase in people moving in ways that they have not before on streets and sidewalks has seen a rise in injuries and an increase in claims.

One set of claims concerns injuries to the e-scooter rider by others. Although it is tempting to view injuries to passengers as no different than injuries to cyclists and pedestrians, there are significant differences, especially concerning comparative negligence and foreseeability. An e-scooter rider can also incur injuries without any "help" from others and may wish to pursue claims against the suppliers arising out of the nature of the device, failure to warn, or poor maintenance.

Scooter riders can injure others, particulary pedestrians. In addition to the differences between e-scooter claims and more traditional injury claims discussed above, there is one other difference: although a car's driver may have vehicle-based insurance to pay a claim, a scooter's rider may not.

Listen as this panel of attorneys at the forefront of e-scooter claims provides factual, legal, and strategic guidance into this emerging class of claims.

Outline

  1. The e-scooter provider
    1. Business model
    2. Maintenance issues
    3. Third-party roles, including pickup and charging
  2. The e-scooter user
    1. User agreement
    2. Required training
    3. Safety equipment
  3. Claims by the user
    1. Against others for injury
    2. Against companies for injury
  4. Claims based user actions
    1. Against the user
    2. Against the company
  5. Insurance issues
  6. Role of municipal or state regulation

Benefits

This panel will review these and other important questions:

  • Are there differences between e-scooter cases and traditional cyclist/pedestrian/auto cases?
  • What aspects of e-scooter programs create unique areas of exposure?
  • Are there developments at the regulatory level which may address these issues?