PHOENIX (CN) — The first of thousands of consolidated sexual assault lawsuits against Uber began Tuesday, in which a jury will decide whether Uber failed to prevent the rape of a passenger and may influence litigation for more than 3,000 similarly situated women across the country.
In a lawsuit transferred to federal court in Phoenix, Jaylynn Dean says she was raped by a driver while intoxicated in November 2023. Her attorneys say the ride-hail giant had been aware of a massive “sexual assault problem” since 2014 and failed to take reasonable steps to improve safety features like improved background checks and mandatory in-vehicle cameras that could have prevented Dean’s assault.
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