Most Popular Sharing Economy Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Sharing Economy Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Uber Targets Personal Injury Lawyers in Multimillion Dollar Ad Campaign
Feb 18 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is pouring millions of dollars into a national ad campaign to push for reforms in insurance policies that it says have been exploited by personal injury lawyers and contribute to higher ride...
#2 Uber Not Liable: Driver Was Not Logged in at Time of Accident, Florida Court Says
Jan 3 2025 // A Florida man may have been an occasional driver for Uber, the ride-hailing company, but he was not working at the time that he struck and killed his former girlfriend, and Uber is not liable for the wrongful death, a...
#3 Uber Alleges Fraud Scheme by New York Groups Faking Car-Crash Injuries
Jan 31 2025 // Ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. filed a racketeering lawsuit against a group of law firms, doctors and pain-management clinics it claims staged fake car accidents and performed unnecessary surgeries to take...
#4 US Sues Airbnb After Host Rejected Rental to Mother With Children
Jan 13 2025 // The U.S. government sued Airbnb on Friday, alleging housing discrimination after a host refused to rent an apartment to a mother with three school-age children. In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, the...
#5 Uber Alleges Insurance Fraud Scheme in Florida as It Goes on Legal Offensive
Jun 11 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. sued a group of lawyers, medical providers and rideshare drivers it claims staged car accidents, manufactured damages and received unnecessary medical procedures to take advantage of insurance...
#6 Airbnb Billionaire Plans Factory-Built Homes for LA Fire Victims
Feb 20 2025 // Billionaire Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb Inc. and a board member of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., plans to donate $15 million of factory-built dwellings to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. The pre-fabricated...
#7 Uber Alleges Inflated Injury Bills in Los Angeles Insurance Fraud Lawsuit
Jul 21 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is suing a group of lawyers and medical providers in Los Angeles who it says have made fraudulent insurance claims that cost the company millions in legal fees — the third such lawsuit it’s...
#8 Uber Avoids Liability for Driver’s Assault on Passenger
Feb 6 2025 // Uber Technologies “is not an insurer” and so when one of its drivers assaults a rider, the ride-hailing company is “not automatically liable,” a federal judge in Philadelphia wrote in dismissing...
#9 With Uber Boost, Group Seeks Reforms to Lower New York’s High Insurance Costs
Jan 15 2025 // Remember the 2010 The Rent Is Too Damn High campaign by Jimmy McMillan? Some people in New York now think insurance is too damn high. A new coalition with backing from Uber Technologies is launching a campaign to lower...
#10 Look Out, Uber. The Future Looks a Lot More Like Waymo.
Oct 14 2025 // There’s something fundamentally American about the freedom to get in your car and drive. Driving is self-determination. The liberty to set your own course. The power to move under your own willpower, whether for duty...
#11 Uber Spends Six Figures on Ads in Latest NY Insurance Reform Push
Apr 18 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is spending six figures on advertisements in New York in its latest appeal to lawmakers to address issues stemming from the insolvency of the city’s largest taxi insurer. The rideshare giant...
#12 Farmers Turn to Airbnb, Corn Mazes to Outlast Agricultural Downturn
Feb 10 2025 // A dead-end dirt road cutting through rural Wisconsin leads to a pasture dotted with shaggy-coated Highland cattle, fluffy Icelandic sheep and a vintage Airstream trailer that farmer Brit Thompson turned into an Airbnb to...
#13 VIDEO: Uber Backed New York Ad Targets ‘Hidden Tax’ Driving Up Insurance Costs
Feb 5 2025 // A group calling for reforms to lower insurance costs across New York has launched its first ad. The ad from newly-formed Citizens for Affordable Rates (CAR) blames “special interests in Albany” along with...
#14 Airbnb Files Lawsuit Against City of New Orleans Over Regulation Dispute
Feb 20 2025 // Airbnb is suing the City of New Orleans for requiring the company and short-term rental platforms ensure properties they market are in compliance with city laws. “What we’re looking at now due to Airbnb’s...
#15 Uber Says New York City Courier Rule ‘Singles Out’ Immigrant Workers
Aug 1 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is pushing back on a new NYC proposal requiring delivery app workers to display company-issued identification numbers on reflective vests, saying it “singles out” immigrant workers for...
#16 Lyft Pays New Jersey $19.4 Million Over Misclassifying 100,000 Drivers
Sep 19 2025 // Transportation company Lyft has paid the state of New Jersey $19.4 million to settle a case involving misclassification of more than 100,000 drivers as independent contractors. According to the New Jersey Department of...
#17 Lyft Protected by Florida’s 2017 Law in Driver’s Miami Crash, Appeals Court Says
Oct 23 2025 // The ride-sharing company known as Lyft and its insurers are largely protected from negligence and vicarious liability lawsuits in accidents, thanks to Florida’s 2017 statute governing app-based ride networks, a state...
#18 Uber Found Not Liable in First Trial Over Driver Sexual Assault Claims
Oct 2 2025 // Uber is not liable for the sexual assault of a woman who said she was attacked by her driver on a ride she ordered from the ridesharing app, a California jury said on Tuesday, according to an attorney for the plaintiff. At...
#19 Uber Teams Up With May Mobility to Launch Robotaxis in US Cities
May 2 2025 // Uber Technologies said on Thursday it will partner with self-driving technology startup May Mobility to deploy thousands of self-driving vehicles on its ride-hailing platform across U.S. cities, starting with Arlington,...
#20 DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats Settle Wage Lawsuits Against New York City
Jun 9 2025 // DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have settled lawsuits against New York City over laws that boosted minimum wages for delivery workers and capped how much the companies could charge restaurants for delivering meals. The...
