The vicarious liability of parent company liability for its subsidiary

Vicarious liability for infringement

When is it proper to hold one person liable for the harm caused by the acts of another person? How should courts decide that? Let’s consider that in the context of manufacturers and disseminators of innovative products such as player-piano rolls, copiers, videocassette recorders (VCRs), TiVo, and Grokster. Each of these technological advances has challenged copyright law. Courts had to decide, ...

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists.

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists In the recent effort to convince the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to let state legislators rather than a federal bureaucracy determine whether nurse anesthetists had to be supervised, anesthesiologists tried to obscure the fact that any administrator of anesthesia can sometimes have an un...

Vicarious Liability of Hospitals

Bargaining Power, Judgement-Proofness, and the Impact of Vicarious Liability

In response to the judgement-proofness problem many countries consider the extension of liability for environmental damages to lenders to wealth-constrained, environmentally risky businesses. We analyze a simple model of vicarious liability and show that using the deep pockets of lenders for liability enhances safety only if the lender has high bargaining power when bargaining with a ̄rm about ...

Player violence, or violent players? Vicarious liability for sports participants

This article analyses two recent English cases concerning the law on vicarious liability for acts of violence and considers their significance in respect of on-field acts of violence in sports participation. It provides an overview of how the law of negligence has developed in the specific context of sports injuries (including application of the volenti principle) and critiques the application ...