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Negligent Hiring

 
In recent years the number of negligent hiring lawsuits being filed against employers is increasing. Ordinarily, this type of lawsuit is filed by a third party who is injured by your employee. The third party claims that you failed to conduct a thorough background check before hiring the employee and if there had been such an investigation, the employee would never have been hired.1 For example, lawsuits could include circumstances like the following: 1. A hospital's failure to discover that a nurse was discharged by a prior employer because of unsafe handling of patients - lawsuit filed by a patient Login to read more.

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