Negligent Entrustment

• Illinois Truck Accident -- Drunk Driver of Auto Dealer Vehicle -- Insurance Coverage of Auto Dealership -- Negligent Entrustment

After a traumatic motor vehicle accident in Illinois involving a large pickup truck and a smaller sedan with three severely injured passengers, the families of the victims desperately needed a personal injury lawyer and contacted us, we immediately cleared our schedule and traveled to the hospital in Illinois to visit the families. Our investigation of the truck accident revealed that the driver of the pickup truck was drunk, had several bottles of liquor in his car, and was doing about 80 MPH when he struck the sedan that was coming to a stop to make a turn. The impact from the truck threw the sedan about 150 yards into a ditch and there were no skid marks from the truck evidencing that he did not even touch his brakes. The property damage to the sedan is severe and it is amazing that ...

• Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
• August 27, 2007

• Auto Insurance Doesn't Cover Negligent Entrustment Suit, Alaska Supreme Court Finds

A couple's auto insurance policy didn't cover a negligent entrustment suit against them after they lent their car to their son, who was then involved in a hit-and-run accident, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled in affirming a summary judgment. The son - who was uninsured and didn't have a drivers' license - was driving his parents' car when he hit a pedestrian. She sued his parents for negligently entrusting the vehicle to their son.

• Lawyers USA
• July 17, 2007

• Riebe v. Hilton, (Ohio 2012)

Small claims court; automobile accident; negligent entrustment; left turn violation; Evid.R. 401(A)(2); trial judge is presumed to know the law; no contest plea is not admissible in subsequent proceedings.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Negligent Entrustment

The act of leaving an object, such as an automobile or firearm, with another whom the lender knows or should know could use the o...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Mc–Pl

• Negligent entrustment: do you know the driving record of everyone in your organization that you allow to drive a company or personal vehicle on company business?

The old adage that "what you don't know won't hurt you"doesn't apply here. What you don't know, but should have known, can and will hurt you. It could...

• Indiana Business Magazine
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 3, March 2008

• Claim

The employer of a truck driver involved in an automobile accident may avoid a for negligent entrustment by admitting vicarious liability, the California Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment. The plaintiff was injured in a multi-vehicle accident that involved a truck driver employed by the defendant. She sued, alleging that the defendant was liable for negligent entrustment in addition to being vicariously liable for the negligence of its driver.

• Lawyers USA
• July 04, 2011

• Maeder v. Hale, (Ohio 2012)

Summary judgment is appropriate on negligent entrustment claim where plaintiff fails to present any evidence that defendant knew or should have known that person to whom she entrusted the car was an incompetent, inexperienced, or reckless driver.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Accident Liability

... that more than one driver or person is negligent and/or has played a role (even inadvertently) in t...Vicarious Liability and Negligent Entrustment. In most states, individuals may be liable for acc...

• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Automobiles

• Ayad v. Gereby, (Ohio 2010)

Negligent entrustment; summary judgment; motion for leave; judgment notwithstanding the verdict; sufficiency of the evidence; settlement; deposition admissibility; undisclosed witness; videotape deposition; manifest weight of the evidence.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Alarcon v. Rasanow, (Ohio 2006)

Waverunner, rental, negligence, negligent entrustment.

• Ohio Supreme Court