Media Coverage Is Accelerating

Over the past several weeks, major news outlets, consumer advocates, and legal publications have focused increasing attention on Uber’s safety record and the consequences of its ballot initiative:

• POLITICO Pro reports medical providers are raising millions to fight Uber’s ballot initiative

• Consumer Watchdog warns Uber users to “take a Lyft” after NY Times report that Uber allowed violent felons & rapists to drive

• Consumer Watchdog sponsors billboards warning riders of Uber’s lax sexual assault policies — “Every 8 minutes another case is reported”

• Sacramento Bee: Capitol Alert coverage on Uber’s ballot initiative

• Sacramento Bee Opinion: Uber initiative would limit recovery and shift costs

• Streetsblog California: Uber’s controversial ballot measure seeks caps on lawyers’ fees in traffic crashes

• Consumer Watchdog in The Daily Journal — Tens of millions raised as Uber, trial lawyers gird for 2026 ballot initiatives

• Daily Journal: Tens of millions raised as Uber & trial lawyers prepare for 2026 ballot fight

• Morningstar / PR Newswire: Uber’s “lump of coal” asking Californians to sign away their rights
  

This growing media scrutiny reinforces what providers have been saying from the beginning: this initiative is not about reform — it is about limiting responsibility and shifting costs away from corporations and onto injured patients and the healthcare system.

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