Underberg v. Southern Alarm, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The causation element requires showing that, given the employee’s dangerous propensities, the victim’s injuries should have been foreseen as the natural and probable consequence of hiring the employee.”
• alarm company salesman who gained entrance to a house through an unlocked door without using his status as an employee to do so did not render his subsequent abduction of a customer “wholly unrelated” to his employment
• alarm company salesman who gained entrance to a house through an unlocked door without using his status as an employee to do so did not render his subsequent abduction of a customer “wholly unrelated” to his employment
• although alarm company salesman gained entrance to victim’s house through an unlocked door without using his status as an employee to do so, a jury could infer that alarm company gave victim’s name and address to salesman as a potential lead

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).