Walgreen Co. v. Abigail E. Hinchy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the question of vicarious liability was one for the jury where pharmacist reviewed and shared a customer’s prescription information with a third party, “[e]ven though some of her actions were unauthorized”
• reasoning that whether a pharmacist’s disclosure of private medical information was within the scope of employment was “properly determined by the jury rather than as a matter of law”
• affirming a jury verdict against a pharmacy for disclosing private information in a patient’s prescription records
• listing “whether the employment provided the opportunity or the means by which to commit the wrongful act” as a relevant factor in determining whether misconduct was incidental to ordinary job duties
• must be underlying liability of acting party for negligent training and supervision claim to succeed
• “To fall within the scope of employment, the injurious act must be incidental to the conduct authorized or it must, to an appreciable extent, further the employer’s business.” (internal quotations omitted and emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).