Uber Technologies Inc. was hit with $8.5 million in damages in a trial over a 19-year-old woman’s claim that she was raped by ...

The case was the first trial of more than 3,000 similar lawsuits against Uber that have been consolidated in U.S. federal ...

A jury found that Uber must pay $8.5 million to a woman who said one of its drivers raped her. The decision could set the stage for payments to thousands of other passengers who filed similar claims ...

The case was the first bellwether trial in the federal multidistrict litigation involving thousands of other cases and spans several states.

Jurors must decide whether Uber was negligent, had a defective app or was responsible for its driver and whether any of that caused injuries.

A former French senator was found guilty in a high-profile drug-facilitated sexual assault case, more than a year after France was shaken by a mass rape trial that made Gisèle Pelicot a symbol of the ...