State of West Virginia v. Michael John Smith

How courts have described this case

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• finding that employer could reasonably anticipate employee would have a car accident because he was “required to drive between jobs”
• alleging employer was directly negligent in hiring an unsafe driver, whom plaintiffs had also sued for negligence
• “[T]he general rule precludes imposing vicarious liability on an employer for its employee’s negligent use of a personal vehicle while driving to and from work.”
• plaintiff’s harm must be “caused by the principal’s negligence in selecting, training, retaining, supervising, or otherwise controlling the agent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).