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Joseph Cavins shares a terrifying experience with e-cigarettes. Joseph face bears the scars of an exploding vaping pen. Greg Bentley puts the blame on faulty products that do not provide enough safety mechanism to avoid injury. Read More

Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, entered his pleas in connection with the Aug. 3 crash on the Venice Boardwalk that killed Alice Gruppioni, 32, who was visiting from Italy on a honeymoon.Witnesses said the driver maneuvered around barriers and intentionally aimed at tourists and vendors.Nathan Campbell claims that he struggled to get the car out of park because of a faulty shift lever, gunned it, then panicked when it lurched forward ... Read More

Greg Bentley discusses the manufacturing practices of these unregulated e-cig batteries. His client, Joseph Cavins a 63-year-old family & marriage counselor, recalls the moment before the e-cigarette battery explosion. Joseph now wears a black patch because his left eye had to be removed and replaced with a prosthetic one. Read More

An Orange County man lost his eye after an e-cigarette exploded, sending debris into his eyeball.  Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, May 10, 2016.  (Published Tuesday, May 10, 2016)Greg Bentley represents a man a man who lost his left eye last month when the battery in an e-cigarette exploded next to him, rocketing debris at his head, is demanding that more be done to regulate the smoking instrument.He is s... Read More

His wife put out the fire and then rushed him to the hospital."This is becoming all too common, and it's now a national problem," said attorney Greg Bentley with law firm Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley, as he showed the charred battery from Cavins' e-cigarette.Bentley says his firm alone is handling 60 cases where e-cigarette batteries have exploded, causing injuries.He says his firm has hired two experts to test the batteries and cha... Read More

Last week, Keith More and the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) traveled to Sacramento to lobby on behalf of consumers.New legislation supported by CAOC has taken aim at corporations that write in forced arbitration clauses into their employment agreements. These hidden clauses prevent employees from exercising their civil rights, and filing suit against corporations for wrongdoings such as malpractice, wrongful termination, and other co... Read More

The Orange County Trial Lawyer's Association (OCTLA), as well as the Top Gun Awards program, hosted an amazing even over the weekend to raise money for Miracles for Kids.The charity is a non-profit that serves children with life threatening illness by helping kids and families overcome the unfortunate emotional and financial hardships that they endure during their illnesses.Our own Keith More joined some of the best lawyers in Orange Coun... Read More