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Benchmarks: Can dead employee’s wife sue for negligent entrustment? 

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    • September 25, 2012

Negligent entrustment can be a handy tool for prying open those deep pockets. But is the theory available to a wife who wants to hold her husband’s employer liable after the man killed himself by driving drunk in a company vehicle?
One state court says yes, holding that a negligent » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/09/25/benchmarks-can-dead-employees-wife-sue-for-negligent-entrustment/

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