Uber Deal Giving Drivers $1 Each Sparks Feud Among Rival Lawyers
- Critics call accord ‘shameful and embarassing’ for California
- Company decries attack based on ‘fabrications and distortions’
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Another Uber Technologies Inc. lawsuit settlement is under siege, with warring lawyers for drivers again trying to tear the deal apart.
The company wants a Los Angeles judge to bless a proposal to pay 1.6 million California drivers about a dollar each to drop a lawsuit seeking the protections and benefits of employees. For Uber, with a valuation of $69 billion, that’s a small price to resolve one of more than a dozen U.S. lawsuits challenging its contractor-based business model -- especially after the attorney for the drivers initially said the case was worth billions of dollars.