A Florida man may have been an occasional driver for Uber, the ride-hailing company, but he was not working at the time that he struck and killed his former girlfriend, and Uber is not liable for the wrongful death, a Florida appeals court said Thursday.
“Castillo was logged off the Uber app for nearly five months prior to the date of the accident and driving his own car after having completed a personal errand when the accident occurred,” a three-judge panel of Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals wrote in the opinion. “Under this set