vicarious liability

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Contingent Liability

A liability that a company may have to pay, but only if a certain future event occurs. Usually, a contingent liability refers to the outcome of a lawsuit: that is, the company may have to pay a significant amount of money if it loses the lawsuit. Contingent liabilities are recorded under accounts payable; their existence may also affect the share price.

vicarious liability

see TORT.

vicarious liability

The legal principle that persons who are in a position to control the actions of another will be held liable for any injuries caused by that other person.Liability does not rely on proving there was improper training, instructions, control, or supervision. Rather, it is imposed merely because of the relationship between the parties.Respondeat superior is one type of vicarious liability. In real estate, the concept is most often encountered in claims against an employer (construction contractor, property manager, and sometimes even real estate brokers) for the discriminatory actions of an employee.

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6] The State is in the same position as private employers, and the State Liability Act provides that the State is vicariously liable for the wrongful acts or omissions of State employees.

Public health officials and MECs should be held liable for harm caused to patients through incompetence, indifference, maladministration or negligence regarding the availability of hospital equipment

In Courtland, the plaintiff sued the franchisee and franchisor, alleging that she was sexually harassed by one of her supervisors, a franchisee employee, and that BWWI should be held vicariously liable for those acts.

Arizona court: franchisor found not vicarious liable: courtland decision represents an important extension of widely adopted franchise law concepts to Arizona

However, Labor Law [section] 240 (1)--which holds owners and general contractors absolutely liable for any breach of the statute even if "the job was performed by an independent contractor over which [they] exercised no supervision or control" (Rocovich, 78 NY2d at 513)--does not obviate the right of an owner or general contractor, who is only vicariously liable by statute, to seek "full indemnification from the party wholly responsible for the accident" (Kelly v Diesel Constr.

Common law indemnification is not triggered by supervisory duties--actual supervision is required, holds court of appeal

Because Mary is an employee, her boss is vicariously liable for her.

Employment law: employee v independent contractor

The court also found that GSU was not vicariously liable, even though it employed faculty and staff who did the copying that may have been illegal; GSU did not profit from the copying.

The risks of indirect infringement

Under DIFC and QFC employment law, an employer may be held vicariously liable for the actions of its employees, for example bullying or harassing a colleague by comments made on Facebook or Twitter," the law firm said in a report.

Your company responsible for your Facebook page?

Attending physicians are directly liable for their own negligence, as well as vicariously liable for residents' actions because of their supervisory role, although some authors have considered failure to supervise a form of direct rather than vicarious liability (JAMA 2004;292:1051-6).

Law & medicine: liability of supervising physicians

Solicitor Carlton Rae said: "This judgment is clear it has set down that the church was vicariously liable and in breach of its duty of care.

RULING MAY AID ABUSE VICTIMS; More pay-outs possible if other victims suffered at hands of priest

The committee said the high court wrongly held that it was vicariously liable for the incident.

SC balm for victims of Dabwali fire

The Mitchells contended that Methodist was vicariously liable for the negligence of its nursing staff and that it was not necessary for the Mitchells' expert witness to detail the required standard of care for each of Methodists' employees for whom it was vicariously liable.

Septic thrombophlepbitis & death: hospital & nurses sued

The bill would have authorized money damages for such actions to include economic damages, solatium, damages for pain and suffering, and punitive damages, and it would have made a foreign State vicariously liable for the actions of its officials, employees, or agents.

109th Congress: proposed legislation

In a writ lodged at Perth Sheriff Court, Henvey alleges that the lorry driver's "fault and negligence mean the company are vicariously liable for causing the accident".