Weible v. Wells

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employer has no duty to investigate applicant’s criminal record in hiring employee as long-haul truck driver
• stating that employers who expect their employees to have frequent or close contact with others are required to go beyond the job application and perform an independent inquiry into the background of the candidate
• stating that employers who expect their employees to have frequent or close contact with others are required to go beyond the job application and perform an independent inquiry into the background of the candidate
• holding trucking company had duty to hire safe driver but had no reason to foresee that employee created risk that he would sexually assault or endanger member of public by engaging in violent conduct
• recognizing an action for negligent hiring, but finding employer had no legal duty to conduct independent investigation into trucker’s nonvehicular criminal background in order to protect a member of the public from a sexual assault committed in the course of employment
• stating: “[W]e emphasize that an employer is not an insurer for violent acts committed by an employee against a third person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).