Negligent Entrustment in Maryland
The doctrine of negligent entrustment
has been part of the law of Maryland since 1934. Negligent entrustment
is a cause of action personal injury lawyers in Maryland bring
on behalf of injury victims. The theory behind negligent entrustment
is that the entrustor is negligent because it negligently provided
the entrustee party with a dangerous instrumentality that caused
injury to a third person.
Not surprisingly, many truck accident
lawyers in Maryland bring causes of action under the theory that
the truck accident occurred because the trucking company negligently
entrusted an extremely dangerous instrumentality, for example
a semi truck, in the hands of someone they knew or should have
known was not trustworthy. When this claim is made against a trucking
company, it will be found negligent if the entrustee had a history
that made a truck accident foreseeable. For example, suppose a
trucking company hires a truck driver who has a record of drunk
driving, which the company could have learned of through a search
of available records. In Maryland, that trucking company may be
liable for the negligent entrustment of that semi truck to that
truck driver if the driver was drinking and caused an injury to
a third person.
See also Negligent
Supervision
See also Negligent Entrustmment and Permissive Use in Maryland
See also Maryland
Truck Accidents