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Speak No Evil: Negligent Employment Referral And The Employer's Duty To Warn (Or, How Employers Can Have Their Cake And Eat It Too), J. Bradley Buckhalter
Speak No Evil: Negligent Employment Referral And The Employer's Duty To Warn (Or, How Employers Can Have Their Cake And Eat It Too), J. Bradley Buckhalter
Seattle University Law Review
This article begins by surveying the evolution of tort doctrine and the "no duty to act" rule. It then proceeds to examine current theories of employer liability in the referral and hiring context and moves on to trace the history of the negligent employment referral claim. Next, this section scrutinizes the Muroc decision and ends with a brief discussion of the future of negligent employment referral. Section III begins by exploring the implications of nondisclosure of reference information for both tort policy and tort doctrine. It then proposes an affirmative duty of disclosure as a solution by amalgamating the reasoning …
Washington Title Insurers' Duty To Search And Disclose, Susan M. Stanley
Washington Title Insurers' Duty To Search And Disclose, Susan M. Stanley
Seattle University Law Review
This comment explores possible non-statutory sources of a title insurer's duty to search and disclose. After reviewing the historical background of title insurance and comparing it with other title assurance methods, this comment examines Washington case law, where the supreme court has failed to impose the duty. It then considers the need to impose and examines the theoretical bases of such a duty to search and disclose: whether it should lie in tort or in contract. Finally, this comment concludes that Washington courts should allow home buyers to sue title insurers for negligence in failing to reasonably search and disclose.