{"id":126,"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-p2\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:31:54","slug":"vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, we began discussing the issue of liability in the context of motor vehicle accidents. As we noted, it is important for accident victims to explore all possibilities in terms of liability, including the possibility of comparative negligence and vicarious liability, particularly employer liability for the actions of employees and independent contractors.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already pointed out that employers are generally accountable for the wrongful actions of employees acting within the scope of employment, but are only liable for the wrongful actions of independent contractors in limited situations. One important limitation on vicarious liability is foreseeability, which limits the type of actions for which an employer can be held responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Established <a href=\"http:\/\/nydailyrecord.com\/2012\/05\/01\/top-10-top-10-points-on-vicarious-liability\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York case law<\/a> has it that, to be held vicariously liable, the employee\u2019s actions must have been generally foreseeable by the employer, as well as naturally incident to the employment. In the context of motor vehicle accidents, this means that the general type of employee conduct which led to the accident must have been reasonably expected and must be a natural part of the motorist\u2019s work duties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/vicarious-liability-in-personal-injury-litigation-p2\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, we began discussing the issue of liability in the context of motor vehicle accidents. As we noted, it is important for accident victims to explore all possibilities in terms of liability, including the possibility of comparative negligence and vicarious liability, particularly employer liability for the actions of employees and independent contractors. We\u2019ve already [&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-126","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.2 &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; May 12, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.2 - 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-p2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vicarious liability in personal injury litigation, P.2 &#8212; 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