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UBER to share names of drivers who assaulted passengers

April 7, 2021 | Reeves Law Firm

Do you need to talk to an UBER sexual assault attorney? Based on past data, eight UBER riders are sexually assaulted each and every day.

Uber’s report revealed that it had received 464 reports of rape on its platform, among 5,981 reports of sexual assault in 2017 and 2018. UBER SEXUAL ASSAULT ATTORNEY

In the report, Uber said it was “committed to finding a way to share the names of drivers who have been banned from our platform for the most serious safety incidents with our ridesharing peers,” according to CNN Business: “Uber and Lyft to finally share names of drivers deactivated over sexual assault and other serious incidents.”

Falsely Accused of Shoplifting?

September 27, 2018 | Reeves Law Firm

Two Alabama residents were featured in New York Times article “They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties: Walmart and other companies are using aggressive legal tactics to get the money back, demanding payments even when people haven’t been convicted of wrongdoing.”

MOBILE, Ala. — Crystal Thompson was at home watching the Rose Bowl parade when a county sheriff came to arrest her for shoplifting from the local Walmart.

Ms. Thompson, 43, was baffled and scared. An agoraphobic, she had not shopped at a Walmart in more than a year. She was taken to a Mobile jail, searched, held in a small room and required to remove her false teeth, something she didn’t even do in front of her husband.

New Study Reveals Why Asbestos Causes Cancer

March 26, 2018 | Reeves Law Firm

Although the link between asbestos and cancer has been clear for some time, researchers have recently discovered why asbestos is so dangerous to the body. According to new research from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the reason asbestos is so dangerous is that chronic exposure leads to a type of tissue repair, which causes the immune system to weaken, making it too weak to combat tumor formation. This can lead to mesothelioma, a very specific type of lung cancer that is only caused by exposure to asbestos.