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  • Employer Liability for Violence in the Workplace ( June 2000 )

    The Utah Supreme Court recently held in <i>Clark v. Pangan</i> (April 2000), that employers can be held vicariously liable for an employee's battery of a co-employee. In that case, two postal workers were involved in an altercation. No surprise there, you might think, but this was not the proverbial disgruntled former employee returning to seek vengeance.
  • Employee Use of Force: The Oregon Court of Appeals Instructs Employers ( November 1999 )

    A new decision of the Oregon Court of Appeals on employer responsibility for employee use of force provides .

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