Ali v. Fisher

How courts have described this case

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• holding that negligent entrustment does not create vicarious liability
• affirming punitive damages award where vehicle owner entrusted vehicle to someone with a suspended license, knowing that the individual had a “history of substance abuse and prior criminal record”
• alleging error of trial court concerned court’s pre-trial ruling as to allocation of fault
• remanding to the trial court to address post- judgment interest, noting that “a plaintiff is not required to move for an award of post- judgment interest in the trial court as the issue does not become ripe until the conclusion of the appellate process.”
• “The act of negligent entrustment and the act of negligent operation of a vehicle are separate and distinct.”
• “[T]he principal goal of comparative fault under McIntyre [was] to link one’s liability to one’s degree of fault in causing harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).