Understanding Negligent Entrustment Issues and Your Company-Owned Fleet
Any company that uses drivers as part of their operations is at risk of negligent entrustment charges for the actions of their drivers while driving on company time.
Understanding Negligent Entrustment Issues and Your Company-Owned Fleet
Maria Richmond, BrightFleet.com
January 2011
Executive Summary
"Understanding Negligent Entrustment Issues and Your Company-Owned Fleet," describes the liability that lies in entrusting employees to drive company vehicles and ways in which fleet managers can work to mitigate the threat of exposure to their company's financial health and reputation.
The average fleet driver will travel our nations highways at eight to twelve thousand miles more a year than the rest of us, making them more likely to cause, or be involved in, a motor vehicle accident. Companies and their owners who think they're hiring a well trained, top quality driver, simply by looking at his or her resume, may be held accountable in the event their driver causes an accident that could have been prevented.
"Understanding Negligent Entrustment Issues and Your Company-Owned Fleet" is intended to assist fleet and risk managers and CFOs in understanding the relationship between company and driver and ways in which they can protect their assets � both financial and human.
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Understanding Negligent Entrustment Issues and Your Company-Owned Fleet
January 2011. (pdf, 9 pages, 139kb).