Uber settled the lawsuit, which was brought by San Francisco and Los Angeles, for $25 million. Lyft also settled a lawsuit stemming from lax background checks in 2014.

Uber will pay at least $10 million to settle allegations that they misled passengers about the quality of its driver background checks.

Uber conducts its background checks using a startup called Checkr, which also separately announced on Thursday it raised $100 million in new funding.

Uber and Lyft supported their own name-based background checks on drivers and claimed Austin's background checks are no better. One-third of taxi drivers who passed the city's fingerprint based checks ...

State officials say more than 8,200 people who applied to drive for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts have failed a required background check.

On Wednesday, the state Senate plans to vote on a set of regulations to require Uber drivers to undergo background checks, and carry insurance coverage for at least $1-million-dollars.

Court documents filed in San Francisco accuse Uber of increasing the risk of sexual assault on riders by making it too easy to become a driver on the application.

Uber implemented a number of new safety measures in Colorado on Monday as part of a proposed settlement with the state’s public utilities commission after an investigation found that dozens o… ...

Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring all ride-sharing services to complete full criminal background checks for their drivers. The bill was written by Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk ...