US EditionUber ordered to pay $8.5 million in key trial over driver sex assault claims
Jury awarded $8.5 million in a bellwether case that could shape outcomes for over 3,000 similar lawsuits alleging Uber's failure in rider safety measures.
- On Thursday a federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million after finding it liable in a sexual-assault lawsuit filed by plaintiff Jaylynn Dean in 2023.
- Plaintiff Dean alleges Uber marketed itself as a safe option for women traveling at night while aware of a wave of assaults, but failed to take safety actions.
- Uber's lawyer highlighted that the driver had 10,000 trips and a near-perfect rating while arguing it shouldn't be liable for criminal acts, despite Dean's allegations.
- The verdict immediately affects litigation and settlement dynamics as Uber faces more than 500 cases in California state courts and U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer manages consolidated federal cases.
- Bellwether trials aim to test legal theories and inform settlements, while rival Lyft faces similar lawsuits and Uber draws headlines and congressional scrutiny.
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An American jury has condemned Uber to pay 8.5 million dollars to a young man who accuses one of his drivers of violating it. This decision, first of a series of more than 3,000 similar processes, could create a precedent, transmit Le Figaro.
On Thursday, a jury in Phoenix, Arizona, sentenced driving service provider Uber to a payment of $8.5 million (about €7.2 million) for sexual assault by a driver. The case was the first of more than 3,000 similar proceedings against Uber, which were brought together in a U.S. federal court. Such pilot proceedings, called "bellwether" in US law, serve to test legal arguments and evaluate the value of claims for possible comparisons. The jury foun…
The federal court in Phoenix, after several days of jury deliberation, concluded that Uber was responsible for at least one of the charges filed.
The case was the first of more than 3000 similar proceedings against Uber, which were brought before a US federal court.
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