Nazareth v. Herndon Ambulance Serv.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, in rape case against ambulance service, the plaintiffs claim that “only female attendants [should] attend female passengers in ambulance has [no] merit ... ”
• Florida Court of Appeals acknowledged state's adoption of Restatement 2d, § 219[2][d] in fraud case
• sexual assault and battery not within scope of employment
• ambulance service is a common carrier under Florida law
• “The general rule is that .an employer cannot be held liable for the tortious or criminal acts of an employee, unless they were commit ted during the course of the employment and to further a purpose or interest, however excessive or misguided, of the employer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).