Lyft

Lyft CEO David Risher told CNBC’s Jim Cramer about the success of his company’s new “on-time pickup promise” launched ahead of the holiday travel season.

The ride-hailing app’s new feature aims to let women and nonbinary people feel more in control of their experience.

The company said it launched the feature to give riders “peace of mind.”

Ride-hailing and food delivery companies say extreme violence is rare among the millions of trips completed each week by gig workers. But three attacks in Florida last month sent ripples of fear among some app-based drivers.

A week after assuming the role of CEO at Lyft, David Risher said on Friday that “we will significantly reduce the size of the team.”

A California court has ruled rideshare companies can continue to treat drivers as contractors rather than employees. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has more information.

App-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors, a state appeals court ruled Monday, allowing the tech giants to bypass other state laws requiring worker protections and benefits.

San Francisco-based Lyft was hit with more than a dozen new lawsuits all at once Wednesday, most of them by drivers who say they were physically or sexually assaulted by passengers.

A Maryland man has died after his Lyft driver ordered him out of the car in the middle of a Delaware highway and he was struck by a passing vehicle, police said.