The company’s shareholders filed a complaint.
Uber shareholders have turned against the company’s board and executives, filing a lawsuit accusing them of “knowingly skimping on compliance in the name of growing the company.” As first reported Reuters, The lawsuit says Uber’s board’s lack of compliance led to sexual assault and harassment of the app’s users, as well as violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and consumer protection laws.
“Uber executives have a long history of devoting insufficient resources to customer safety and protection and setting a tone of noncompliance for the organization,” the lawsuit says. “This inevitably led to customer harm and massive legal and regulatory exposure to Uber.”
The shareholders behind the lawsuit are demanding a jury trial, but also that the company “reform and improve its corporate governance and internal procedures” to resolve these ongoing problems. An Uber spokesperson told Woozad that “this lawsuit ignores important facts and is based on misleading and false narratives from other baseless lawsuits that we have previously addressed publicly and in the courtroom.”
The legal issues surrounding Uber’s conduct towards passengers are not new, however. In 2022, more than 500 female passengers filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that they had been “kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually beaten, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed or otherwise attacked” by Uber drivers.
