[sivex]

Not a single comment on here about using insurance. I know that a backpack with a laptop can be stolen out of someone else's car and cut-rate renters insurance will cover it. I don't really think Uber was the correct person to foot this bill, I think this is the same as someone grabbing your purse from you when walking down the street. You either have decent insurance or you're SOL

[vkou]

If Comcast sent a contractor over to your house, to hook up cable, and the tech stole your TV, is Comcast liable for this?

If you check into a hotel, and the bellboy steals your luggage, is the hotel liable for it?

If you hired a roofing company to fix your roof, they subcontracted it to another firm, which came and set your house on fire, are the roofers also not liable? Especially after they spend a few months trying to prevent you and the police from getting in touch with the subcontractors?

This smells of criminal conspiracy.

[shuntress]

>I think this is the same as someone grabbing your purse from you when walking down the street.

It is not the same as someone grabbing your purse when you are walking down the street.

Unless the person who grabbed your purse was hired by you through an agency to hold your bags and walk you down the street before they ran off with your purse.

[rustid]

My insurance didn't cover it