A federal decide in Baltimore has dismissed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit in opposition to Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the household of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019.
A federal decide in Baltimore has dismissed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit in opposition to Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the household of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake dominated Thursday that Uber didn’t have an obligation to conduct background screenings of passengers.
The decide additionally concluded that the hurt to Uber driver Beaudouin Tchakounte was not “sufficiently foreseeable” to Uber even when it had identified that the passenger who killed him had been convicted of theft 21 years earlier.
The passenger who shot and killed Tchakounte and a second passenger in Prince George’s County, Maryland, later informed authorities that he was excessive on PCP.
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