Malorney v. B & L Motor Freight, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a factual question for the jury existed about whether company negligently hired truck driver with criminal history of violent sex-related crimes who later raped and beat the plaintiff hitchhiker
• holding a factual question for the jury existed about whether company negligently hired truck driver with criminal history of violent sex-related crimes who later raped and beat the plaintiff hitchhiker
• trucking company liable for rape of hitchhiker, where it was foreseeable that trucker with criminal sexual assault background, who was entrust ed with truck equipped with sleeping quarters, would pick up hitchhikers in violation of company policy
• discussing the duties “imposed by law on owners of vehicles who permit or hire other persons to drive on our highways,” including a duty to deny the entrustment of a vehicle to a driver it knows or should have known is incompetent
• discussing the duties “imposed by law on owners of vehicles who permit or hire other persons to drive on our highways,” including a duty to deny the entrustment of a vehicle to a driver it knows or should have known is incompetent
• question of fact for the jury existed in negligent hiring case, where employer equipped driver with truck in which he raped hitchhiker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).