Uber and Lyft Sexual Assault Lawyers

Sexually Assaulted by an Uber or Lyft Driver? You Have Options.

If a rideshare driver sexually assaulted you, what happened was not your fault.

You trusted a ride to get home safely, and that trust was turned against you.

You can take legal action, and you can do it privately, on your own terms.

You are not alone in this. Survivors across the country are holding Uber and Lyft accountable for the danger they were put in.

Our attorneys handle these cases with care and discretion, and a conversation costs nothing.

You decide whether to come forward, when, and how far to take it. We are here to help you understand your options, not to pressure you.

Call (888) 713-6653 for a free, confidential consultation. There is no cost to talk, and no fee unless we win your case.

Can You Sue Uber or Lyft After a Driver's Sexual Assault?

Yes. You can bring a civil claim, and it stands apart from any criminal case against the driver.

These claims do more than name the individual driver. They reach the rideshare company itself, for how it screened the people it put behind the wheel, how it monitored them, and how it responded when riders reported being hurt.

You do not need a criminal conviction, and you do not even need to have filed a police report, to pursue a civil claim. A criminal case asks whether the driver should be punished. Your civil case asks who is responsible for the harm done to you, and what it will take to make it right.

That is a different question, with a different standard of proof, and it is one the rideshare companies have been made to answer.

How Uber and Lyft Were Warned, and Failed to Protect Riders

The heart of these cases is simple. The companies knew the danger, and for years they did too little about it.

Uber's own US Safety Report disclosed nearly 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the United States across 2017 and 2018 alone, with thousands more in the years that followed.^[1] These were the company's own numbers, not an outside estimate.

Survivors and the courts have pointed to the same failures again and again:

• Screening that let dangerous drivers through. Background checks that lean on limited records can miss histories that should have kept a driver off the platform.
• No real safeguard during the ride. For years there was little meaningful monitoring of what happened once a rider got in the car, and few in-app protections built to stop it.
• Reports that went nowhere. Drivers accused of misconduct were not always removed, leaving them free to pick up the next passenger.
• A failure to warn. Riders were sold a promise of safety while the companies understood the real risk.

A claim is built on these failures. The focus stays where it belongs, on the choices the company made, never on the person who was harmed.

To a company this size, a single assault report can read like one line in a safety dashboard. To the person behind that line, it was everything. We make the case treat it that way, and make the company answer for the choices that led there.

The Uber and Lyft Sexual Assault Litigation

You would not be bringing this fight alone. Thousands of survivors' cases against Uber have been gathered into a single federal proceeding, a multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of California, so they can move forward together.^[2]

It is making real progress. A federal judge has ruled that Uber owes its passengers a duty of safety it cannot simply pass off onto its drivers, and the first cases testing these claims have already gone to trial. Lyft faces parallel lawsuits built on the same kind of conduct.

Bringing many cases together gives survivors leverage that a single claim filed alone rarely has. How that kind of consolidated litigation works is covered in our overview of how mass tort lawsuits hold corporations accountable.

Your case would still be your own, valued on what happened to you. The shared proceeding handles the common questions about the company's conduct, so no survivor has to prove the corporate failures from scratch.

Your Privacy Comes First

The fear of being exposed keeps many survivors silent. It should not, because the system has ways to protect you.

These cases can very often be filed under a pseudonym, as a "Jane Doe" or "John Doe," which keeps your name out of the public court record. What you share with our attorneys is confidential and protected, and you stay in control of who knows and how much is ever made public.

Nothing moves forward without your say. A first conversation is private, and it commits you to nothing.

If you need support right now, the National Sexual Assault Hotline is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day at 800-656-4673.

What a Rideshare Sexual Assault Claim Can Recover

No two cases are alike, and there is no standard figure. What a claim seeks is measured by the harm done to you, not a chart, and anyone who quotes you a number before learning your story is guessing.

A claim can pursue compensation for what you have carried and what lies ahead:

• The cost of care. Therapy, counseling, and medical treatment, now and into the future.
• Lost income and a disrupted life. Time away from work, a changed career path, or schooling cut short.
• The trauma itself. The fear, the pain, and the lasting effect on your sense of safety and your relationships.
• Punitive damages. In some cases the law allows damages meant to punish a company for putting growth ahead of rider safety.

A settlement or verdict can never undo what happened. What it can do is pay for your recovery and force a company to change how it treats the people who trust it for a ride.

How Long Do You Have to Come Forward?

There is a deadline to file, the statute of limitations, and it varies by state.

Sexual assault claims are often treated differently from ordinary injury cases. Many states give survivors far longer to come forward, and some have opened revival windows that let older cases be filed even after the usual deadline has passed. An assault from years ago may still support a claim today.

The deadline is a reason to ask sooner rather than later, not a reason to feel rushed. Finding out where you stand costs nothing and commits you to nothing, and it is far better to learn your options early than to lose them to a clock you did not know was running.