Lawsuit Claims That Uber Driver Background Check Failures Allowed a Sexual Predator to Assault a Rideshare Customer

A California woman says she was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver who was still allowed to work for the rideshare service, despite a criminal record and previous sexual harassment complaints from passengers.

The complaint (PDF) was filed by a woman identified only as M.F.A. on September 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, naming Uber Technologies Inc. and Raiser, LLC, as defendants.

M.F.A. joins a growing number of users of the rideshare service who have filed similar Uber sexual assault lawsuits in recent months, each alleging that Uber driver background checks fail to discover facts that should lead the company to know they are sexual predators.

Read the source article at About Lawsuits