From the Washington City Paper A little gas can cause big trouble. Sedan service Uber finds itself the subject of a lawsuit—-and with one fewer driver—-after a customer's burp allegedly sent the driver into anti-American, anti-gay rant. The trouble started on Feb. 13, 2012, according to a case filed last month in D.C. Superior Court. [...]
From the Courthouse News Service (CN) - Uber must face negligence claims from a customer who says he was attacked with a knife by one of its drivers, a federal judge ruled. Erik Search used the Uber app to summon a driver in September 2013. Yohannes Deresse arrived to pick up Search and his three [...]
From ValleyWag Late Saturday night, Bridget Todd, a writer, activist, and former lecturer at Howard University, tweeted at taxi dispatch startup Uber that she'd been choked by the driver she'd ordered on Uber's smartphone app—apparently because he was angry at her interracial relationship. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's response, in an emailed warning to his PR [...]
From LA Weekly It was a Friday night in June when former Lyft driver Yago Rodriguez picked up four women in Santa Monica outside the Buffalo Club and unknowingly drove his vehicle into a sly game of bumper cars. Rodriguez (who has asked not to be identified by name) was about to pull away from [...]
From Pando A San Francisco man has told PandoDaily that he was verbally abused and physically assaulted by an UberX driver Saturday night, and has shared video and documentary evidence to support his account. [UPDATE: Read Uber's blog post response to the incident here.] According to the man, James Alva, he called Uber after 1 am Saturday [...]
From NBC Bay Area The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has obtained video that appears to show a Lyft driver punching a pedestrian. The video comes to light just weeks after a driver for Uber Technologies, another app-based car service, was involved in a fatal accident in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. It is [...]
From NewsOK The Oklahoman An Oklahoma City real estate broker claims in a lawsuit that he needs dental surgery after a late-night ride through the ridesharing service Uber ended with a punch in the face in the parking lot of an Arby’s restaurant. Phillip Mazaheri is suing former Uber driver Tyler McEuin for damages in [...]
From the NY Daily News A Philadelphia model is suing Uber after a driver dislocated her nose and pushed her earring through her skin in a road rage-fueled attack, she claimed. Lorraine Delp filed a civil lawsuit last week against the car service and driver Djamel Khelife for the July traffic jam assault, NBC Philadelphia [...]
From Pando Someone give the Uber driver relations staff an antacid, because it's been one hell of a trying summer for the department. The latest incident from the "you've got to be kidding me files," comes from Atlanta, where last night an Uber driver allegedly pulled a gun on a valet parking attendant outside a JT Kitchen restaurant [...]
From Forbes Roberto Chicas, a 35-year-old San Francisco bartender, climbed into an UberX car around 2 a.m. last week and expected to get home safely. Instead, he landed in the hospital after his driver allegedly bashed in his face with a hammer after a dispute over the route. The hammer attack left Chicas with a fractured [...]