Massachusetts Appeals Court· 5/3/2002

Coughlin v. Titus & Bean Graphics, Inc.

Citations

54 Mass. App. Ct. 633
767 N.E.2d 106

How courts have described this case

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“person is not negligent toward another unless he owes the other a duty to be careful”
no duty owed to victim of employee where she “was neither a customer . . . nor an employee or business invitee at the time she was murdered”
summary judgment granted in favor of employer, where employee, who had prior convictions for rape and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, murdered woman on employer’s premises; not reasonably foreseeable employee would attack member of public
explaining duty of care for employer in negligent hiring

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Judges: Smith

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