Signals are mixed on employer liability for injuries caused by drunk workers

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Courts have applied varying interpretations to laws on whether employers are liable for the actions of employees intoxicated at a company gathering or event. The logic followed in a recent Florida case, Carroll Air Systems v Greenbaum, suggests that employer liability furthers social interests in best allocating the economic costs of injuries. Other theories of employer responsibility include the doctrine of respondeat superior and the theory of negligent breach of duty for failing to control the employee's behavior.

Cases, Employer liability, Florida, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Drinking (Alcoholic beverages), Business entertaining, Dram shop acts, states

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Foreseeability in a fog: uncertainty over pre-existing duties can undermine contracts

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Contract law includes the doctrine of unforeseen difficulties which entails the determination of whether an event was foreseeable at the time the parties made the contract. The test is whether a reasonable man would have foreseen that event or a similar one. The courts have not achieved uniformity in unforeseen difficulties cases, and differing results can even exist in the same jurisdiction. Suggestions for applying the doctrine consistently are given.

Analysis, Interpretation and construction, Contracts, Foreseeability (Law), Performance (Law)

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Unloading debts; reduced-amount payments can leave creditors high and dry

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Debt settlement cases pose a danger for providers of goods and services if the vendor-creditor, or seller of the product or service, receives and cashes a check from the vendee-debtor, or buyer, for less than the billed amount but with a "paid in full" notation . The common-law rules widely followed are summarized, based on whether debts are liquidated or unliquidated. Relevant Uniform Commercial Code sections are also summarized.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Debtor and creditor

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