Uber Sexual Assault Lawsuit

The claims are against Uber Technologies, Inc, not only against the drivers. Riders allege that Uber did not do enough to protect passengers from its drivers: that its background checks let dangerous drivers onto the app, and that it failed to put adequate safety measures in place.

Those are allegations. Uber disputes them, and juries have reached different results on different facts. Whether a company is responsible for what a driver did is the question each case turns on, which is why the details of the ride and the driver matter more than anything said in general.

If it was a Lyft ride, the same kind of claim is coordinated separately, in MDL 3171 in the Northern District of California. You can still ask for a review here, and an attorney looks at it.

Federal cases are coordinated as MDL 3084, In re: Uber Technologies, Inc., Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation, before Judge Charles R. Breyer in the Northern District of California. More than 4,900 claims were pending there as of October 1, 2026. Coordination groups cases that share common questions for pretrial work. It is not a ruling that Uber is responsible for any assault, and this is not a class action: each rider's case stays their own.

The court has been trying a few cases first, as test cases. In February 2026 a jury in Phoenix awarded one rider $8.5 million. In April 2026 a jury in Charlotte, North Carolina found for another rider and awarded $5,000. In October 2026 a third case, in Texas, settled on confidential terms before opening statements. In California's state court proceeding, Uber won the first trial, in September 2025.

Those results are why nobody can tell you what a claim is worth. One case does not predict another.