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New Restatement Rule Expands Vicarious Liability for Employee Sexual Misconduct

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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 against third parties who are...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

NC Court of Appeals Clarifies How Insurers’ Duties to Defend and Indemnity Are Triggered in Atypical Employment Relationships

The Court of Appeals’ opinion in N.C. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Young, (No. COA24-594) addresses how a court is likely to assess the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify under an insurance contract, and the interplay...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Understanding the Impact on Employers of West Virginia’s Formal Recognition of Negligent Supervision Claims

In a recent important decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia formally recognized that a third party can sue an employer for negligent supervision of an employee, even if the employee’s intentional or reckless...more

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