$100M Uber Settlement Attacked By Drivers Saying Lawyer Sold Out
The lawyer who struck a $100 million deal with Uber Technologies Inc. is being accused of greed by some of the drivers covered by the accord who want her bumped, reports Bloomberg News.
“She has single-handedly stuck a knife in the back of every Uber driver in the country,” Hunter Shkolnik, a New York lawyer who’s pursuing his own cases against the ride-share service, said Friday in a phone interview with Bloomberg. “The entire class was thrown under the bus and backed over.”
Shkolnik asked the San Francisco federal judge who presides over the class-action settlement to remove Shannon Liss-Riordan as lead attorney. He says she sold out her clients by accepting a payout for California and Massachusetts drivers that’s less than 10 percent of the value of their claims “while she walks away with $25 million.”
Liss-Jordan labeled the claims as “uninformed,” “untrue and malicious.”
