All the headlines from our Uber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2022 // Alabama and Georgia are poised to join the ranks of those states making it clear that drivers for Uber, Lyft, Grubhub and other delivery and ride-sharing apps should be considered independent contractors, not employees...
Mar 31 2022 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Grubhub, Uber Eats and Postmates must face an antitrust lawsuit by diners who accused them of driving up menu prices by exploiting their dominance in meal deliveries during the COVID-19...
Feb 7 2022 // A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019.U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake...
Jan 26 2022 // A Massachusetts man seriously injured in a crash while a passenger in an Uber car is suing Uber and the driver for $63 million in damages.The suit accuses Uber of negligence in the hiring of the driver, who the complaint...
Dec 28 2021 // An Uber driver is charged with raping a female passenger who police said fell asleep before waking up as she was attacked during a ride in metro Las Vegas.Dawed Oumer Mekonene, 30, was arrested last week and remained in...
Nov 23 2021 // Nine months after the UK Supreme Court made a crucial decision that effectively forced Uber Technologies Inc. to provide worker rights for its riders, the firm is back in court accused of trying to undermine the...
Oct 6 2021 // Late last month, James River Group Holdings, Ltd. announced that two of its principal operating subsidiaries entered into a loss portfolio transfer reinsurance transaction with a wholly owned captive insurer of Uber...
Sep 13 2021 // Uber drivers are employees entitled to greater workers’ rights under local labor laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing a setback to the U.S. company’s European business model.It was another court victory...
Aug 31 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. on Monday proposed a plan for a flexible benefits fund for app-based ride-hail and food delivery drivers in Canada under which all gig industry players would share data on workers’ hours and...
Jul 16 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement with a California regulator for sharing data on sexual assault and harassment claims on its platform while protecting victims’ privacy and avoiding a...
Jun 25 2021 // Uber has agreed to pay more than $3.4 million to 15,000 drivers after making mistakes related to Seattle’s pioneering paid sick leave law covering gig workers.Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle City Council in...
May 18 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Uber’s bid to avoid a lawsuit over whether drivers for the ride-hailing company’s limousine platform UberBLACK are employees and not independent contractors as the...
Apr 30 2021 // Under growing threat by a new U.S. administration insistent on reclassifying ride-hail and food delivery workers as employees with full benefits, gig economy companies including Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart are...
Apr 9 2021 // A judge in Maine has ruled that a woman who has impaired vision can go ahead with a claim against Uber, which she has said discriminated against her by refusing to allow her guide dog into a vehicle.The lawsuit stretches...
Apr 5 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. lost the first round in a lawsuit filed by the relatives of a university student who was run over and killed on a San Diego freeway after one of the company’s drivers allegedly ordered her out...
Mar 29 2021 // A former Uber driver in Central California was found guilty of sexually assaulting and stealing from five passengers.Jurors took less than three hours to convict Alfonso Alarcon Nunez of 13 felonies, including three...
Mar 26 2021 // A Massachusetts judge on Thursday denied a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general challenging Uber’s and Lyft’s classification of drivers as independent contractors instead of employees...
Mar 17 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. will reclassify all 70,000 of its UK drivers as workers, entitling them to the minimum wage, vacation pay and other benefits after a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court last month.The ride-hailing...
Mar 16 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have created a program to share information about drivers and delivery people deactivated from their platforms for the most serious offenses, furthering a safety push by ride-hailing...
Feb 22 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s defeat in a UK legal battle over the way it treats its drivers is set to trigger a wave of complaints from workers across the region.Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that Uber must...