CNN —Five more passengers are suing Uber over alleged sexual assault incidents that occurred in recent months at the hands of drivers on its platform.
The incidents detailed in a lawsuit filed this week in San Francisco County Superior Court took place between August 2021 to February 2022 in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.
Slater Slater Schulman LLP is among several firms with practices targeting safety issues on Uber and Lyft’s services.
Across its two safety reports, which cover 2017 to 2020, the company disclosed that it received 9,805 reports of the most severe categories of sexual assault, which range from “non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part” to “non-consensual sexual penetration,” or rape.
In March 2021, Uber and Lyft announced they would share the names of drivers who were deactivated over the most severe safety incidents.