The litigation attacked the ride-sharing company's business model of treating its drivers as contractors.

A judge is requiring PG&E to reform what he described as 'dismal' management that led to a series of destructive fires.

'There's a clear-cut pattern here: that PG&E is starting these fires,' judge told lawyers at a hearing Wednesday.

PG&E is skipping payments it agreed to make to people whose property was destroyed in a 2015 blaze.

The accord allows Uber to keep classifying the drivers as independent contractors.

If the three-year-old lawsuit collapses, Uber would escape without any significant changes to its business model while keeping hundreds of thousands of California and Massachusetts drivers classified as independent contractors.

Lyft moved a big step closer to sealing a deal with drivers that leaves them classified as independent contractors.

Judges are poised to consider settlements that will leave Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers as independent contractors.