King v. Lens Creek Ltd. Partnership

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that employer can be liable “for its negligence in hiring an independent contractor who is not careful or competent” (citing Restatement (Second) of Torts § 411)
• stating that employer can be liable “for its negligence in hiring an independent contractor who is not careful or competent” (citing Restatement (Second) of Torts § 411)
• stating that employer can be liable “for its negligence in hiring an independent contractor who is not careful or competent” (citing Restatement (Second) of Torts § 411)
• declining to find that an independent contractor “who lacks adequate liability insurance or financial resources to respond in damages is incompetent per se” in a negligent hiring theory of recovery
• “A principal has a non-delegable duty to exercise reasonable care when performing an inherently dangerous activity; a duty that the principal cannot discharge by hiring an independent contractor to undertake the activity.”
• \A principal has a non-delegable duty to exercise reasonable care when performing an inherently dangerous activity; a duty that the principal cannot discharge by hiring an independent contractor to undertake the activity.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).