LOS ANGELES — A settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought against Uber Technologies Inc. on behalf of a teenage girl who was allegedly picked up by a driver for the ride-hailing company in 2021 — despite the plaintiff being underage — and later dropped off in Harvard Heights, where she contended she was sexually assaulted by a man.

The girl’s attorneys filed court papers on Thursday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa R. Jaskol notifying her of the resolution of the case, but no terms were divulged. The judge vacated a nonjury trial that was scheduled for Sept. 15.

According to the suit filed in March 2023, the Uber driver picked up the plaintiff — then 13 years old, and now 17 — from her Ventura home about 1:30 a.m. in April 2021, and dropped her off in Harvard Heights, where another man accosted her, dragged her down the street and sexually abused her. The minor is identified only as J.W.

The girl’s lawyers argued in their court papers that the assault was predictable because the driver should have known that he was putting the plaintiff in danger by dropping her off in the middle of the night in the “presence and control of a dangerous predator and/or unsafe situation.”

Uber and similar ride hailing companies are defined legally as “common carriers” and they have special obligations of care to minor plaintiffs such as J.W., her lawyers further maintained in their court papers.

In their court papers, Uber attorneys stated that while the man who allegedly attacked the plaintiff “should be held to account for his heinous actions” the claims against the company failed “as a matter of law.”