{"id":125,"date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p3\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:20","slug":"vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been looking in recent posts at the issue of vicarious liability in the context of motor vehicle accidents involving employees and independent contractors. Last time, we looked particularly at the foreseeability and scope of employment requirements. As we noted, the key question with scope of employment is whether the employee was doing the employer\u2019s work at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of factors courts consider when determining whether an employee was acting within the scope of employment. These <a href=\"http:\/\/nydailyrecord.com\/2012\/05\/01\/top-10-top-10-points-on-vicarious-liability\/\" target=\"_blank\">factors<\/a> include, first of all, the time, place and location of the act. In the context of a motor vehicle crash, the court would be looking for where and when the crash occurred. Did it occur on the employer\u2019s premises or on a job site? Did the crash occur before, during or after working hours? These and other such questions are important to consider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another factor is the actual relationship between the employer and employee and how this relates to the employee\u2019s work duties. If the worker\u2019s job description or contract doesn\u2019t include certain activities, but is an established agreement that the employee engages in those activities, the latter may be considered within the scope of employment for purposes of vicarious liability. In cases where the employee did not perform his or her duties as directed or as they are ordinarily performed, courts will also consider the extent of the departure and whether any wrongdoing that caused injury could have been reasonably anticipated by the employer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p3\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been looking in recent posts at the issue of vicarious liability in the context of motor vehicle accidents involving employees and independent contractors. Last time, we looked particularly at the foreseeability and scope of employment requirements. As we noted, the key question with scope of employment is whether the employee was doing the employer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.3 &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; May 12, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.3 - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p3\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.3 &#8212; 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