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Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping

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. [...]

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Knife Attack Claims Survive Uber Motions

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 [...]

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Uber CEO on Driver “Assault”: It’s Not Real and We’re Not Responsible

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 [...]

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Cabbies Push Back Against Uber and Lyft

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 [...]

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Uber customer claims abuse and assault by driver. Uber confirms: yes, he drives for us

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 [...]

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Exclusive Video: Lyft Driver Allegedly Attacks Pedestrian

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 [...]

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Oklahoma City Uber passenger sues after scuffle with driver

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 [...]

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Philadelphia Uber driver beat model, pushed earring through skin in traffic jam: lawsuit

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 [...]

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Atlanta Uber driver allegedly pulls a gun on a valet attendant

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 [...]

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Uber Rider Might Lose An Eye From Driver’s Hammer Attack. Could Uber Be Held Liable?

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 [...]

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