Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring. Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case. Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring. Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.

Week 2 – Assignment Negligent Tort Liability

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

• Review Chapter 7 and Chapter 36 of the course textbook.

• Review the cases Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986) Download Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986), and Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006) Download Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006).

• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Superior Electrical (Superior) was in the business of installing electrical wiring and related components at new construction sites. Because some employees were assigned company vehicles equipped with company tools and materials and were expected to drive those vehicles to the work sites, Superior required all employment applicants to hold a valid driver’s license. Employees who were assigned a company vehicle were expected to drive for the company during the workday in order to transport job materials and company tools that were kept on the vehicle to job sites. These employees were expected to take the company issued vehicle home at the end of the work day.

Superior hired Cory Jones as an apprentice electrician. Jones had completed an employment application in which he stated that he had a valid driver’s license and had not been cited for any traffic violations. These statements were untrue. His license had been suspended because of numerous traffic violations, including careless driving and driving without a license. Superior did not check on his driving record at the time he was hired because, as an apprentice electrician, he was not being assigned a company vehicle and was not expected to drive for the company during the work day.

About a year after hiring Jones, Superior promoted him to electrician and assigned Jones a company vehicle equipped with a rack for transporting wiring and other materials to and from the work sites. Superior intended that Jones drive during the day for the company and to take the vehicle home after the end of the work day. On a later date, when Jones’s work hours had ended and he was driving home in the company vehicle, he collided with two cars. The collision resulted solely from Jones’s negligence. Carolyn Carson and her son were severely injured in the collision and they sued Superior. The Carson’s alleged two theories of recovery against Superior: respondent superior and negligent hiring.

• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Write a four- to five-page paper that addresses the following:

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring.

• Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring.

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.

• Apply those elements of respondeat superior to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable on respondeat superior grounds.

• Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA style

• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.