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· 7/31/1991

Tallahassee Furniture Co., Inc. v. Harrison

Citations

  • 583 So. 2d 744
  • 1991 WL 146668

How courts have described this case

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  • holding deliveryman’s prior criminal record for theft, plus management’s knowledge of his substantial on-the-clock drug use and of his prior commitment to a psychiatric hospital, created a fact issue regarding notice that he would assault a customer
  • affirming a jury verdict for negligent retention where furniture deliveryman brutally attacked plaintiff in her home
  • affirming a jury verdict for negligent retention where furniture deliveryman brutally attacked plaintiff in her home
  • finding a duty to check the background of a furniture delivery man
  • declining summary judgment based on facts “known to management” and subsequent inaction
  • declining summary judgment based on facts “known to management” and subsequent inaction

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Judges: Smith

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