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Full-Text Articles in Law
Is A Locomotive In Use And Therefore Subject To Locomotive Inspection Act Liability When It Makes A Temporary Stop?, Anne Marie Lofaso
Is A Locomotive In Use And Therefore Subject To Locomotive Inspection Act Liability When It Makes A Temporary Stop?, Anne Marie Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
Case at a Glance: LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Bradley LeDure, a long-time locomotive engineer for Union Pacific, slipped on the slick surface of a locomotive while it was idle but powered on, seriously injuring himself. If Union Pacific violated safety regulations under the Locomotive Inspection Act, then it would be negligent per se. But that theory of liability is only available if the locomotive was in use at the time of the accident. The case presents a question of statutory interpretation of the term use.
Taking Note Of Notary Employees: Employer Liability For Notary Employee Misconduct, Nancy Perkins Spyke
Taking Note Of Notary Employees: Employer Liability For Notary Employee Misconduct, Nancy Perkins Spyke
Maine Law Review
The law of agency governs the relations between principals, agents, and third persons. A portion of that body of law deals with the liabilities that arise when an agent causes harm to a third party. Situations in which negligent employees cause harm to their employers' customers are ripe for the application of standard agency principles. Those principles dictate that the employer will be liable for the tort of an employee if the tort is committed in the scope of employment. The Restatement (Second) of Agency and case law provide many illustrations. If an employer directs an employee to perform a …
The Evolving Doctrine Of Union Liability For Health And Safety In The Workplace. Warning: Collective Bargaining Can Be Hazardous To Your Union's Health, Jeffrey S. Wohlner
The Evolving Doctrine Of Union Liability For Health And Safety In The Workplace. Warning: Collective Bargaining Can Be Hazardous To Your Union's Health, Jeffrey S. Wohlner
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Negligent Hiring And The Information Age: How State Legislatures Can Save Employers From Inevitable Liability, Katherine A. Peebles
Negligent Hiring And The Information Age: How State Legislatures Can Save Employers From Inevitable Liability, Katherine A. Peebles
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Three And Out: The Nfl's Concussion Liability And How Players Can Tackle The Problem, Jeremy P. Gove
Three And Out: The Nfl's Concussion Liability And How Players Can Tackle The Problem, Jeremy P. Gove
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In 1952, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study stating that a player should not continue playing professional football after suffering three concussions. As players continue to get bigger, faster, and stronger, the number of concussions has increased. In response to this problem, the National Football League (NFL) commissioned a study run by scientists and NFL team doctors to determine the long-term effects of concussions. That committee determined that no long-term repercussions exist after experiencing a concussion while playing NFL football. Despite the scientific community's critiques of the study, the NFL used the committee's findings to create the …
Texas Elective Workers' Compensation: A Model Of Innovation?, Jason Ohana
Texas Elective Workers' Compensation: A Model Of Innovation?, Jason Ohana
William & Mary Business Law Review
Workers' Compensation is often described as a bargain between employers and employees. Employees give up the right to sue their employers in negligence for workplace injuries, and, in return, employers agree to pay predictable, statutorily mandated benefits to injured employees. Over time, this “bargain” became compulsory in every state but one. Texas is the only state in which employers and employees can decide whether or not to enter the workers' compensation bargain. This elective system has some fairly serious problems, and many have advocated its abandonment. This Note analyzes the system's history, compares the system to conventional compulsory systems, analyzes …
Teaching Torts With Sports, Adam Epstein
Teaching Torts With Sports, Adam Epstein
Adam Epstein
The purpose of this paper is to offer a pedagogical road map for an alternative way to engage students when arriving at the torts portion of the business law or legal environment course. It is designed to encourage utilizing sports cases and sport-related videos when teaching torts which can be effective and energizing. My research demonstrates that the prominence of sports related tort cases and examples are much more apparent in the negligence and intentional tort categories than in products liability or strict liability. More specifically, an effective way to relate the concept of negligence in sports is in the …
Employer Vicarious Liability For Voluntary Relationships Between Supervisors And Employees, Carrie E. Fischesser
Employer Vicarious Liability For Voluntary Relationships Between Supervisors And Employees, Carrie E. Fischesser
Seattle University Law Review
It is somewhat radical to suggest that an employer should not be held vicariously liable for an employee's voluntary submission to sexual advances where the alleged harasser is a supervisor, and this approach is a marked departure from existing assumptions regarding sexual harassment. Most decisions and writings on the topic have imposed--under a traditional agency theory-- vicarious liability upon the employer for the sexually harassing conduct of its supervisors.4 Specifically, courts addressing this issue have held that “[t]here is no question that a ‘tangible employment action’ occurs when a supervisor abuses his authority to act on his employer's behalf by …
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii, Lindsey H. Dobbs
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii, Lindsey H. Dobbs
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Priestley V. Fowler (1837) And The Emerging Tort Of Negligence, Michael Ashley Stein
Priestley V. Fowler (1837) And The Emerging Tort Of Negligence, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
Priestly v. Fowler has long been noted as the source of the doctrine of common employment. This Article, however, argues that the case is better understood in the context of the then-emerging independent tort of negligence-specifically, as an unsuccessful attempt to require of masters a duty of care towards their servants. The Article re-examines the facts, arguments, personalities, and various reported versions of the case in tracing the effort to establish a new duty of care. The Article traces, as well, to another case, Hutchinson v. York, the true origins of the common employment doctrine. Finally, the Article compares the …
The Latex Allergy Crisis: Proposing A Healthy Solution To The Dilemma Facing The Medical Community, Lynn Cherne-Breckner
The Latex Allergy Crisis: Proposing A Healthy Solution To The Dilemma Facing The Medical Community, Lynn Cherne-Breckner
Journal of Law and Health
The explosion in the number and severity of latex allergies began with the emergence of the AIDS epidemic as the Centers for Disease Control issued universal precautions advising health care workers to use protective barriers to prevent the spread of the infection. This resulted in constant use of the gloves by medical workers and a great increase in demand for cost effective gloves. Essentially, the quality of the glove making process decreased, increasing the amount of allergy inducing proteins excreted to wearers. Afflicted workers include physicians, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, operating room personnel, laboratory technicians and ambulance attendants among others. …
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Supervisor" Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims, Liability Insurance, And The Trend Towards Negligence, Amanda D. Smith
"Supervisor" Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims, Liability Insurance, And The Trend Towards Negligence, Amanda D. Smith
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
A lack of settled standards for determining liability in supervisor hostile environment sexual harassment lawsuits combined with similar uncertainty in the context of employer liability insurance coverage has resulted in increased litigation in this area. This Note argues that the current predominant standard in the employer liability context, which is based on negligence principle should be rejected in favor of an apparent authority standard, which more appropriately strikes a balance between encouraging employers to identify harassing behaviors and exonerating them from liability when they do so and take appropriate remedial action. It further argues that in order to develop effective …
Chaos And The Law Of Borrowed Servant: An Argument For Consistency, J. Dennis Hynes
Chaos And The Law Of Borrowed Servant: An Argument For Consistency, J. Dennis Hynes
Publications
No abstract provided.
Hospital Liability Related To Understaffing Of Nursing Services: Walking The Fine Line Between Respondeat Superior And Corporate Negligence, Carmen D. Rasmussen
Hospital Liability Related To Understaffing Of Nursing Services: Walking The Fine Line Between Respondeat Superior And Corporate Negligence, Carmen D. Rasmussen
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Workers' Compensation—Supervisory Employees Are Immune From Tort Actions, Hank Jackson
Workers' Compensation—Supervisory Employees Are Immune From Tort Actions, Hank Jackson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Torts, Various Editors
Parental Immunity And Respondeat Superior, 1970
Parental Immunity And Respondeat Superior, 1970
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
How F.E.L.A. Became Liability Without Fault, Gaspare A. Corso
How F.E.L.A. Became Liability Without Fault, Gaspare A. Corso
Cleveland State Law Review
The Federal Employers' Liability Act supersedes the common and statutory law of the states ("There is no federal common law"), and this is true regardless of where the action is brought. Under common law, the injured employee was faced with the burden of proof and obliged to overcome the defenses of contributory negligence, assumption of risk and the fellowservant rule. But it is apparent that Congress was dissatisfied with the common law approach to the master-servant relation-ship. The practical effect (at the very least) of the F.E.L.A. is to abolish many of the defenses available at common law to an …
Agency -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, John S. Beasley
Agency -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, John S. Beasley
Vanderbilt Law Review
During the period covered by this Survey several cases have raised rather interesting points for consideration under the law of agency. On one occasion the Tennessee Supreme Court declined the opportunity of joining the ranks of the majority of states in moving toward a more modern rule on employer's liability with respect to an employee's child injured negligently by the employee. In this and other decisions, the courts have followed Tennessee precedent rather closely, with the result that there are few changes in the law of agency.
Advocating The Rights Of The Injured, Benjamin Marcus
Advocating The Rights Of The Injured, Benjamin Marcus
Michigan Law Review
When workmen's compensation was first introduced a half century ago, it was felt necessary to cushion the shock in a number of ways. One of these was the idea of a bargain, an exchange, in which the worker, to obtain the new remedy based on liability without fault, gave up his existing remedy, the right to a tort action against his employer for a negligent injury. It is time that the terms of that bargain be re-examined.
Agency--1958 Tennessee Survey, Edward R. Hayes
Agency--1958 Tennessee Survey, Edward R. Hayes
Vanderbilt Law Review
Establishing that Tortfeasor is a Servant of Defendant: Negligent operation of motor vehicles probably is the most prolific source of tort liability today. Within this area an important cause of litigation has been negligent operation by someone other than the owner of the vehicle. The initial common law approach to such cases was to hold the owner responsible if he himself were negligent, as by entrusting his car to a known incompetent driver, or if the negligent driver were the owner's servant acting within the course and scope of his employment.'
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In Smith v. Phillips a pick-up truck, registered …
Abstracts, Katharine Loomis
Abstracts, Katharine Loomis
Michigan Law Review
The abstracts consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.
Recent Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The recent decisions consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.
Master And Servant - Liability For Torts Of Servant - Scope Of Employment, Robert E. Sipes
Master And Servant - Liability For Torts Of Servant - Scope Of Employment, Robert E. Sipes
Michigan Law Review
Defendant corporation was an owner and operator of taxicabs. One of its cabs was hailed by another taxicab driver to pursue the latter's taxicab which had just been stolen from him. During the pursuit defendant's taxicab struck plaintiff's car. Plaintiff seeks to recover from defendant for the damage to his car. Held, the driver of the cab was not acting in the scope of his employment so defendant cannot be held. Bindert v. Elmhurst Taxi Corp., (N. Y. Mun. Ct. 1938) 6 N. Y. S. (2d) 666.
The Uncompensated Industrial Injury, Stanley Law Sabel
The Uncompensated Industrial Injury, Stanley Law Sabel
Michigan Law Review
Workmen's compensation laws as means by which industry shares part of the burden of the human toll incident to the cost of production are reaching the maturity of their development. The adoption of such laws has been wide; all but two states in the union now have some provision by which employees engaged in most lines of work are compensated without regard to fault for injuries caused by their work.
Master And Servant--Liability Of Master For Servant's Negligence In Driving Master's Car To Servant's Home, W. G. W.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Master And Servant - Action By Employer Against Chauffeur, Michigan Law Review
Master And Servant - Action By Employer Against Chauffeur, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The owner of an automobile suffered personal injury and injury to his car when his chauffeur ran into another vehicle. Held, in overruling defendant's demurrer, that an employer has a cause of action against his chauffeur for negligence, there being no grounds. of policy against such an action and there being no joint enterprise and hence no negligence imputed to the employer. Darman v. Zilch, (R. I. 1936) 186 A. 21.
Master And Servant - Independent Contractor - Salesman As Servant Or Independent Contractor, Milton M. Howard
Master And Servant - Independent Contractor - Salesman As Servant Or Independent Contractor, Milton M. Howard
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was injured as a result of a collision between his automobile and one being driven by N. N was a traveling salesman for defendant company and plaintiff sued both N and the company. It was held that, under the facts of the case, while N had been negligent, and was therefore liable, defendant company was not liable, for N was an independent contractor. Holloway v. Nassar, 276 Mich. 212, 267 N. W. 619 (1936).