All the headlines from our Ridesharing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2024 // Uber agreed to pay A$271.8 million ($178 million) to compensate thousands of taxi drivers in Australia who claimed they lost income when the ride-share company entered the local market.Uber Technologies Inc. settled the...
Feb 20 2024 // Uber Technologies last Friday sued its drivers’ auto insurer for defense and indemnification regarding multiple lawsuits that are seeking to hold Uber vicariously liable for accidents involving some of its drivers in...
Nov 3 2023 // Uber Technologies has reached a settlement with the New York State Department of Labor to help ensure that eligible drivers and couriers can obtain unemployment benefits, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Thursday.The...
Nov 2 2023 // Uber and Lyft will pay a combined $328 million to settle claims by New York’s attorney general that the ride-sharing companies systematically cheated drivers out of pay and benefits.Attorney General Letitia James...
Oct 19 2023 // Uber and one of its New York drivers who failed to pull within a foot of the curb when picking up a passenger must face a negligence lawsuit after all.A lower court had dismissed the negligence suit against Uber and the...
Oct 16 2023 // A notice in Uber’s digital registration process requiring ride-share customers to take any individual claims to arbitration is enforceable, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled in a case involving passengers injured...
Sep 29 2023 // On-demand insurance platform INSHUR launched its insurance offering for on-demand livery drivers in Arizona, its second state in the U.S. following New York. This comes after the company’s acquisition of American...
Sep 13 2023 // A notice in Uber’s digital registration process requiring ride-share customers to take any individual claims to arbitration is enforceable, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled in a case involving passengers injured...
Aug 25 2023 // Uber raised the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25 on Thursday under rules the company said are necessary because of the rising costs of commercial auto insurance in the state.The new...
Aug 25 2023 // At 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other...
Aug 24 2023 // A teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group was on Wednesday found by a London jury to have hacked Uber and fintech firm Revolut, and blackmailed the developers of best-selling videogame Grand Theft Auto.Arion Kurtaj,...
Aug 1 2023 // A coalition of gig economy giants plan to reboot a failed ballot initiative in Massachusetts in a renewed push to cement their workers’ status as independent contractors.The Massachusetts Coalition for Independent...
Jun 28 2023 // Two Georgia laws take effect Saturday, July 1, that affect insurance for ride-share operators and, potentially, workers’ compensation claims from hospital workers.House Bill 529 lowers the minimum amount of uninsured...
Jun 15 2023 // A US labor board ruling on Tuesday laid the groundwork for drivers from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. and other gig workers to formally unionize – a still difficult but potentially transformative task.In a ruling...
May 8 2023 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s former security chief was spared from prison for concealing a massive data breach in 2016.Joe Sullivan’s sentencing to three years of probation Thursday followed his conviction by a...
Apr 28 2023 // New York’s top state court on Thursday threw out claims by yellow cab operators that New York City diminished the value of their taxi licenses by failing to rein in app-based competitors like Uber Technologies Inc...
Apr 27 2023 // A Florida man is charged with murder and other offenses in the slaying and dismemberment of an Uber Eats driver who had brought food to the assailant’s house, authorities said Tuesday.Oscar Solis Jr., 30, is charged...
Apr 26 2023 // Uber Technologies Inc drivers are not exempt from a U.S. law requiring them to bring work-related legal disputes in private arbitration rather than joining class action lawsuits in court, a U.S. appeals court ruled on...
Apr 17 2023 // A group of Lyft Inc. shareholders is calling on the company to establish stronger safety protections for drivers, change its shareholder voting structure and subject directors to annual elections.SOC Investment Group —...
Apr 6 2023 // The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws has urged a federal appeals court to revive a lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc’s system allowing passengers to rate drivers is racially...