Electric Scooter Injuries Pile Up but Lawsuits Are Hard to Make

Over the past few years, cities across America have experienced sudden downpours of shared electric scooters, piling up almost overnight on curbs, sidewalks and front-yards from Atlanta to Los Angeles.

The phenomenon has quickly built billion-dollar startups, a new urban subculture and even a gray market for freelance scooter-chargers. But as with everything new, it’s also triggered litigation. And in the case of a transportation mode that leaves riders exceptionally vulnerable to sudden injury, it’s reasonable to expect a lot of it.

A man on an electric scooter in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Now, lawyers have their first trickle of data as they seek to make unlucky ...