California SB 371 and the New TNC Coverage Architecture for Rideshare Accident Cases

Barry P. Goldberg, Founder | Barry P. Goldberg, A Professional Law Corporation

Barry P. Goldberg is the founder of Barry P. Goldberg, A Professional Law Corporation, a Woodland Hills, California personal injury firm he established in 2005 after 17 years practicing personal injury law in Beverly Hills. His practice is devoted to personal injury litigation and trial work with a particular emphasis on insurance coverage, and he is a recognized authority on uninsured and underinsured motorist law in California. Other practicing attorneys regularly consult him on uninsured and underinsured motorist arbitrations.

• Education & Credentials

Mr. Goldberg earned his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received his J.D. from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in 1984, gaining his California license that same year. He is admitted to all California courts, all federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court Bar.

• Recognition & Leadership

Mr. Goldberg has been selected to the Southern California SuperLawyers list for 10 consecutive years and was named to the SuperLawyers Top 100 list in Southern California in 2021. He holds an AVVO 10.0 Superb rating, the AVVO Client’s Choice Award, the AVVO Top Contributor designation, and a 10 Best Award, and was nominated for the Trusted Advisor Award by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. He served as president of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association in 2020 after serving on its executive board as treasurer, secretary, and president elect.

• Professional Involvement

Mr. Goldberg is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles (CAALA) and has acted as a volunteer mediator and CRASH settlement officer for the Los Angeles Superior Courts. He is a frequent lecturer on legal topics, and his article “Mastering Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Arbitrations” was published in November 2020 in The Advocate, the CAALA trial lawyers magazine.

• Experience

With more than 35 years of consistent practice on behalf of injured consumers, Mr. Goldberg has handled numerous trials and hundreds of arbitrations and mediations and has argued matters before the California Court of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He trademarked the phrase “The Injury Law Professionals.”

Howard Blumenthal, Attorney | Law Office of Howard S. Blumenthal Howard Blumenthal

is a personal injury attorney with the Law Office of Howard S. Blumenthal. Licensed in California for more than 25 years, his practice has focused primarily on personal injury civil litigation. Before becoming an attorney, he worked as an insurance adjuster for a major insurance company and as a case manager at a Beverly Hills law firm, and he spent a year early in his career at an insurance defense firm, experience that gives him first-hand insight into how carriers and the defense side evaluate injury claims.

• Education & Credentials

Mr. Blumenthal holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received his J.D. from UWLA. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

• Recognition & Leadership

Mr. Blumenthal is a past president of the Antelope Valley Bar Association and serves as a Board Member of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities (LATLC).

• Professional Involvement

Mr. Blumenthal has served as a voluntary settlement conference officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court, as a settlement officer for the CRASH program at the Glendale courthouse, and as a mandatory settlement officer for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, of which he is a member. He has also presided pro tempore over traffic court arraignments and trials.

• Experience

Over his career, Mr. Blumenthal has resolved more than $175 million in personal injury claims and almost 6,000 cases, with both jury trial and bench trial experience in personal injury civil litigation.

SESSION 1 – The New Period 1/2/3 Coverage Map After SB 371 and AB 1340 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm

This session maps California’s overhauled TNC insurance framework under SB 371 and AB 1340, effective January 1, 2026, covering period-by-period coverage amounts, the $200,000 conditional excess layer, the UM/UIM reduction, and date-of-loss issues in pending files.

BREAK | 1:00pm – 1:10pm

SESSION 2 – Stacking, Period-Pushback, and Bad-Faith Levers After Coverage Reduction | 1:10pm – 2:10pm

This session examines litigation strategy after SB 371 cuts TNC UM/UIM coverage to $60,000, covering coverage layering under California’s anti-stacking rules, bad-faith leverage against carrier misconduct, procedural requirements including Section 998 offers, and a practical intake-through-arbitration framework.