Close Gaps in Fleet Safety to Avoid Negligent Entrustment Liability, Part Three
Part three of a four-part series on negligent entrustment: Invest in new technologies to avert liability exposure.
By Kevin Reilly, Editorial Communications Manager, The CEI Group, Inc.
Part one of my negligent entrustment series summarized the main grounds for a fleet-related negligent entrustment case. Part two addressed how a fleet manager could build a transparent, fair, and enforceable safety policy to help safeguard the fleet from exposure to this form of liability. Part three walks through technologies unrelated to the vehicle. I will outline the importance of investing in these newer technologies to ward off liability exposure.
One More Second Teaches Drivers to Be Safe on the Road
One More Second is composed of 2.5 hours of key training across 8 modules — teaching drivers how be safe and stay safe on the road.
Vehicles as Weapons of Terror: U.S. Cities on Alert as Attacks hit the West
Last month, attackers using a vehicle and knives killed eight people and wounded dozens more on London Bridge.
A few weeks later in an incident nearby, a man drove into people leaving mosques after Ramadan services, killing one and injuring 10.
And in May, a man driving in New York's Times Square plowed into a crowd during lunchtime, killing one person and injuring 22. While authorities said the incident was not terrorism, the Islamic State, inspired by the crash, used it to warn that more attacks on the nation's largest city and popular tourist destinations would follow.
Getting Excited for AFLA in Las Vegas
This year’s AFLA conference is at the M Resort in Las Vegas, and offers a fantastic lineup of topics and speakers, plus plenty of time built in for networking. Don’t miss it!
Road Rage, an Alarming Trend, Takes a Deadly Turn
David Desper regularly kept a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatic handgun in the center console of his red Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, according to a friend.
Desper owned other weapons and sometimes went to the Targetmaster shooting range in Chadds Ford, said the friend, Greg Parker, who had worked with Desper for three years.
But Parker is convinced that Desper never used that gun outside of a shooting range before about 5:30 p.m. on June 28. That's when, investigators allege, the 28-year-old Trainer man shot and killed Bianca Roberson, 18, as the two were jockeying for position at 60 mph on a stretch of Route 100 in West Goshen Township where two lanes narrow to one.
