Is There a Class Action Lawsuit Against Uber in 2026?

Updated August 11, 2026 · By Class Action Buddy

Yes, but nothing is claimable. The FTC is suing Uber over how Uber One is sold and cancelled, and Uber Eats faces consumer suits over delivery fees. Every Uber settlement that has actually paid money went to drivers and couriers — and those claim windows have closed.

Uber One: the FTC case, and why it matters most

On 21 April 2025 the Federal Trade Commission sued Uber over its Uber One subscription. The allegations are unusually specific, and they are the reason so many people search for an “Uber One class action”:

• People were enrolled without consent. The complaint quotes one consumer who was charged despite not even having an Uber account.
• Uber promised savings of $25 a month without subtracting the cost of the subscription itself, which runs up to $9.99 a month.
• Some people on a free trial were charged before the trial ended, despite being told they could cancel at no charge.
• Cancelling could take as many as 23 screens and 32 actions — and some users were told to contact support, then given no way to reach it.

The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Uber Technologies, Inc., No. 3:25-cv-03477-JST in the Northern District of California. In December 2025 it grew teeth: New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 20 other states joined the FTC in an amended complaint, adding state consumer-protection claims. Uber tried to have the case thrown out, but Judge Jon S. Tigar denied most of that motion in 2026, letting the FTC’s claims under the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA) proceed (FTC announcement).

Can you claim? Not yet. This is a government enforcement action in progress, not a settlement. There is no fund, no administrator and no deadline. If it eventually produces refunds, they would be announced by the FTC and its partner states — watch ftc.gov, not a third-party “claim” site.

The sexual-assault MDL: Uber’s biggest active case

By volume and by stakes, the largest litigation Uber faces is not about money you can claim from a form — it is In re: Uber Technologies, Inc., Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation, MDL No. 3084 (case No. 3:23-md-03084-CRB), consolidated in the Northern District of California before Judge Charles R. Breyer. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralised the federal cases on 4 October 2023; by mid-2026 more than 3,000 plaintiffs had joined, with hundreds more in a parallel California state-court proceeding.

The plaintiffs allege Uber failed to protect riders from assault by drivers — weak background checks, no meaningful in-app safeguards, and poor handling of complaints. In a significant 2026 ruling, Judge Breyer held that Uber owes passengers a “non-delegable duty” of safe transport that it cannot escape by classifying drivers as independent contractors. The first two bellwether (test) trials produced verdicts of $8.5 million (February 2026) and $5,000 (April 2026); a third is set for 30 September 2026 (court docket).

Can you claim? This is not a class action with a claim form. It is a mass tort: each survivor is an individual plaintiff represented by their own lawyer, and there is no global settlement fund yet. If it affects you, speak to a personal-injury attorney — not a claim-filing tool, and not a site promising a “payout.”

Uber Eats: fees, priority delivery and couriers

For diners, two consumer cases are live and neither has settled. One filed in March 2026 alleges the paid “priority” option does not deliver what it advertises — that supposedly direct orders may still include other stops, and couriers have no way of knowing which orders are priority. Others allege that Uber One’s promised “$0 delivery fee” is effectively recovered through a separate “Service Fee and Other Fees” line that appears at checkout (case tracker). Allegations only — nothing to file.

For couriers, there has been a real payout. Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards settled with Portier LLC, which trades as Uber Eats, for $15,025,521.75 — of which $14,991,841.49 went to 16,120 workers — over the city’s Independent Contractor Protections and App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinances. Payments went out on 29 August 2025 and the check-cashing deadline was 27 November 2025, so that one is finished (case information).

Drivers: the $290 million New York settlement

This is the largest sum Uber has actually paid out to individuals, and it went to drivers. The New York Attorney General found Uber had been deducting sales tax and Black Car Fund fees from drivers’ earnings rather than charging them to passengers. Uber funded $290 million; Lyft settled separately for $38 million, making $328 million between them.

It covered drivers who completed at least one trip on Uber’s driver app between 10 November 2014 and 22 May 2017, administered by Rust Consulting. The settlement also secured an earnings floor, paid sick leave and proper hiring notices going forward (NY Attorney General).

The claim deadline was 28 February 2025 and has passed. Worth flagging: the Attorney General’s own page still reads as though the window is open. It is not. Always check the stated deadline against today’s date, even on an official source.

What this page used to say

An earlier version listed “driver classification class actions (multistate)” and a “surge-pricing during emergencies” case, each with a status and a year but no court, case number or administrator — neither could be verified in the form stated, so both were removed. That version also listed the sexual-assault MDL with no court or docket number; rather than drop a real case, we have documented it properly above with its case number, judge and status, because it is the litigation most people mean when they search “Uber lawsuit 2026.”

Why so few Uber cases become claimable

If Uber is sued this often, why is there almost never a claim form for riders? The answer is in the terms you accepted when you tapped “I agree.” Uber’s rider and driver terms contain a binding arbitration clause and a class-action waiver: most private disputes must go to individual arbitration rather than a court class action. That is why the cases that actually pay tend to be brought by regulators — the FTC, a state attorney general, a city labor office — who are not bound by your arbitration clause. It is also why the money has reached drivers and couriers, whose recoveries came through government enforcement, far more often than riders.

It is the same reason a “lawsuit” and a “settlement” are not the same thing. A regulator suing Uber — as the FTC is now — can take years and may end in an injunction with little or no cash to individuals. A settlement is the only stage that creates a fund, a named administrator and a deadline you can act on. Until a case reaches that point, there is nothing to file, no matter how many headlines it generates — and any site inviting you to “claim your Uber payout” before then is either mistaken or a scam.

How to check for new class actions against Uber

New class actions are filed regularly. The fastest way to know about one that you qualify for is to be notified by the settlement administrator (which only happens if your contact info is in Uber's records and they're required to send notice). The next-fastest is to monitor a settlement-tracking service.

• Check our guide to settlements with no proof of purchase for the ones currently open.
• Sign up for Class Action Buddy — you'll get a push notification when a settlement opens that you qualify for based on your stored purchase history.
• Bookmark our open settlements page for the current filable list across all brands.

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