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ABC 7 covers the stories behind the dangers of e-cigarette explosion and the victims represented by Greg Bentley. Read More

 Greg Bentley wins a landmark victory against e-Cigarette retailers responsible for faulty vaping products, leading to severe injury. Greg wins compensation for his clients as well as increase awareness of the hidden dangers.Greg Bentley makes a case the these e-Cigarette products mostly go unregulated with absolutely no oversight by the FDA and Consumer Product Safety commission. These products are sold at the expense of consumer safety ... Read More

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