When lawyers conduct a review of the case law, they are not reviewing all of the cases that have impacted individuals throughout the country. What they are reviewing ...

An employer can be liable for injury done by an employee to a third party under the doctrine known as vicarious liability. Vicarious liability can arise when the employee’s activity that caused the ...

The unique placement of midwives in the health care industry prompts renewed consideration of vicarious liability. Generally, vicarious liability is the liability of an employer for an employee's ...

The American Law Institute approved a controversial new provision of the Restatement of Torts, Third expanding vicarious liability to employers for certain sexual assaults committed by employees ...

Violating New York Judiciary Law §487 can be memorably costly for an errant attorney. Significant penalties can ensue, both the criminal and the civil kind. Section 487 not only codifies a misdemeanor ...

A GP partner who faced a ‘vicarious liability’ claim worth millions has said Pulse’s coverage of the case was ‘instrumental’ in a medical defence organisation’s decision to agree to cover potential ...