Uber Drivers Liable for Safety When Passengers Exit Vehicles

Uber Technologies Inc. and a California driver must face a negligence suit filed by a garbage truck worker who was injured when a passenger opened their door into the truck, a state appellate court said Friday.

William Mason said he was standing on the back of a garbage truck in downtown San Francisco in 2017 when a passenger opened the door of an Uber parked along the street and hit him, causing him to fall and suffer injuries.

The Uber driver had parked in the street in front of the passenger’s destination, a hotel, rather than in the hotel’s driveway, ...