: Uber to pay millions to settle suit over charging wait fees to riders with disabilities

Uber Technologies Inc. has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement on federal charges that the company discriminated against riders with disabilities by charging them wait-time fees for the extra time it took for them to enter a vehicle.

Uber UBER must credit the accounts of more than 65,000 riders who signed up for the wait-time waiver for double the amount of fees they were charged, which could total hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release Monday. The company…