Uber Ordered to Pay $40 Million to Parents of Woman Killed After Being Left by Driver on Freeway
The parents of a young woman who was killed three years ago on an Orange County freeway are being awarded a $40 million settlement from Uber, in a case that tested the limits of Prop 22, which classified rideshare drivers as independent contractors.
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