Alfa Mut. Ins. Co. v. Roush

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \a plaintiff who establishes a principal's vicarious liability for its agent's acts does not automatically establish a claim of wantonness against the principal\
• \a plaintiff who establishes a principal's vicarious liability for its agent's acts does not automatically establish a claim of wantonness against the principal\
• wantonness involves the “conscious doing of some act … and being conscious that, from doing … an act, injury will likely or probably result”
• wantonness claim “was not supported by the evidence and should not have been presented to the jury”
• “Wantonness involves the ‘conscious doing of some act or the omission of some duty, while knowing of the existing conditions and being conscious that, from doing or omitting to do an act, injury will likely or probably result.’”
• “‘Wantonness’ has been defined by this Court as the conscious doing of some act or the omission of some duty, while knowing of the existing conditions and being conscious that, from doing or omitting to do an act, injury will likely or probably result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).