Lyft Owes No Duty To Its Drivers To Do Background Checks On Riders

Al Shikha v. Lyft, Inc., 102 Cal. App. 5th 14 (2024)

While working as a Lyft driver, Abdu Lkader Al Shikra was stabbed by a passenger in a “sudden and unprovoked attack.” Al Shikra sued Lyft for negligence based on its failure to conduct criminal background checks on all passengers. The trial court granted Lyft’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, and the Court of Appeal affirmed dismissal of the complaint after concluding that conducting criminal background checks on all passengers would be “highly burdensome” to Lyft and that the type of harm Al Shikha suffered was not “highly foreseeable.”

© 2024 Proskauer Rose LLP. by: Anthony J Oncidi of Proskauer Rose LLP For more from California Courts, visit the NLR Litigation Trial Practice section

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