The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in a March 10 decision that public schools can be held responsible for acts of sexual abuse outside a teacher or employee's employment. The decision handed down by ...

In a 6-1 ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court handed down its consolidated 127-page opinion in Hornor v. Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education and Simpkins v. South Orange-Maplewood School ...

The court found a 2019 law stripped schools' civil immunity from lawsuits over sexual abuses committed by their teachers.

On 1 April 2020 the Supreme Court handed down two judgments regarding vicarious liability in Barclays Bank plc [2020] UKSC 13 and WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc [2020] UKSC 12, each addressing one of ...

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 ...

Vicarious liability is the assignment of financial responsibility to someone other than the employee or agent for the damages that result from the employee's or agent's actions. These damages may be ...

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Although a jury awarded $2,109,553 to Clarence Coryell and his wife, Sandra, and against Domino's for vicarious liability, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed and remanded with instructions that ...

A bill reversing a High Court decision that found the Catholic Church could not be sued for the actions of a priest passes unopposed through Victoria's upper house.

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