Island City Flying Serv. v. General Elec. Credit Corp.

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• concluding that em- ployee’s theft was not reasonably foreseeable based on prior drug conviction
• requiring a connection and foreseeability between the prior offense and the current offense for an employer to be found liable for negligent hiring
• “employer is liable for the willful tort of his employee committed against a third person if he knew or should have known that the employee was a threat to others”
• in aircraft owner's suit against flying service for negligent hiring or retention of employee who stole and crashed owner's plane, flying service was entitled to comparative negligence defense against owner who failed to lock plane, despite employee/thief's intentional tort

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