See what you click on FoxBusiness.com. Uber was ordered to pay $40 million for the 2023 death of a Southern California woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle after her ride-share driver kicked her off the side of a freeway. Retired Judge Richard Stone, an arbitrator, rejected Uber’s argument that it “simply operates a technology platform” and that it was protected from “vicarious liability for the negligence of its drivers,” according to Panish Shea Ravipudi, the law firm representing the family of Emily Normandin-Parker, 23. life,” said parents Carol Normandin and Ken Parker. HERTZ AND UBER TEAM UP TO BUILD HIGH MOBILITY ROBOTAXI FLEETS Uber headquarters in San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant was ordered to pay $40 million over the 2023 death of a woman who was stranded on a busy highway. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images) Normandin-Parker, a graduate of UCLA in 2020, she was with her friends in Costa Mesa when she called an Uber to take her to her Laguna Beach home with her friend Luna Moore. lawyers. Demanded a cleaning fee. Emily, who was intoxicated, was left stranded alongside several lanes of freeway traffic, where she was hit and killed. Instead of calling 911, Tran left and requested that Uber charge a cleaning fee to Normandin-Parker’s account. Stone found that Tran “unnecessarily put” her passengers in danger and showed “far more concern for her new car than for her passengers.” a child, and our thoughts remain with the Normandin-Parker family,” a company statement read. “We have continued to strengthen our approach to safety over the years, through new technologies, policies and safeguards informed by safety experts, including additional guidance for drivers on how to avoid leaving vehicles in unsafe locations. Our work on safety is never done and we will continue to look for ways to help make the platform safer.” Nokia Maps is seen on a smartphone in front of the Uber logo in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in this photo illustration from May 8, 2015. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo / Reuters) GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE MOTION BY CLICKING HERE Parents can watch their teens’ Uber ride through the front-facing camera from the driver’s smartphone when live video is enabled. Before the deadly incident, Tran had completed 6,000 rides with a rating of 4.96, without a single incident involving unsafe drop-offs, highway stops or injuries to passengers, Uber said.
