State of West Virginia v. Darcy Fisher

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• holding that a common carrier owes a duty of reasonable care to avoid discharging a passenger who it knew, or should have known, was intoxicated and likely to drive an automobile
• holding that a common carrier owes a duty of reasonable care to avoid discharging a passenger who it knew, or should have known, was intoxicated and likely to drive an automobile
• explaining that the dangers of drunk driving have been abundantly documented in terms of the loss of human life, likelihood of serious injury, and the enormous cost to society
• The expression “arising out of’ does not refer to all circumstances in which the injury would not have occurred but for the involvement of a vehicle.
• no social host liability, although claim could proceed on alternative theory of negligence
• livery service who deposited inebriated customer at his motor vehicle at the end of the evening may be held liable to persons injured by the inebriated operator

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