Estate of Arrington v. Fields

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• holding employer liable for negligently hiring employee who had a long criminal record for position of armed security guard
• holding employer liable for negligently hiring employee who had a long criminal record for position of armed security guard
• holding employer liable for negligently hiring employee who had a long criminal record for position of armed security guard
• holding employer liable for negligently hiring employee who had a long criminal record for position of armed security guard
• holding basis of responsibility for negligent hiring is master’s own negligence in hiring or retaining incompetent servant whom master knows or by exercise of reasonable care should have known was incompetent or unfit, thereby creating unreasonable risk of harm to others
• stipulation of agency relationship does not moot negligent hiring claim when punitive damages are at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).