[droidno9]

What Bird is really fighting over in this case is the indemnification clause in their user agreement. If this clause is not found to be legal in California, the potential liability down the road could be millions in other cases.

[matwood]

What Bird is really fighting for here is their entire business. If Bird has to take on liability for any accident on their scooter, regardless of fault, then there is no scooter business. Heck, potentially no sharing type business at all could exist then.

[nullc]

bird indemnified the city here-- they voluntarily adopted the cities legal liability, in some complex negotiation between their expert attorneys.