PJC General Negligence 2024

C HAPTER 10

A GENCY AND S PECIAL R ELATIONSHIPS

PJC 10.1

Employee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Borrowed Employee—Liability of Borrowing Employer . . . . . . 130

PJC 10.2

PJC 10.3

Borrowed Employee—Lending Employer’s Rebuttal Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Borrowed Employee—Disjunctive Submission of Liability of Lending or Borrowing Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

PJC 10.4

Employment as Defense under Workers’ Compensation Act. . . . 133

PJC 10.5

PJC 10.6

Scope of Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

PJC 10.7

PJC 10.8

Independent Contractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Independent Contractor by Written Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

PJC 10.9

PJC 10.10 Respondeat Superior—Nonemployee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

PJC 10.11 Joint Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

PJC 10.12 Negligent Entrustment—Reckless, Incompetent, or

Unlicensed Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

PJC 10.13 Negligent Entrustment—Defective Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

PJC 10.14 Negligent Undertaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

PJC 10.15 Imputing Gross Negligence to a Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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