PJC General Negligence 2022

C HAPTER 10

A GENCY AND S PECIAL R ELATIONSHIPS

PJC 10.1

Employee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

PJC 10.2

Borrowed Employee—Liability of Borrowing Employer . . . . . . 128

PJC 10.3

Borrowed Employee—Lending Employer’s Rebuttal Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Borrowed Employee—Disjunctive Submission of Liability of Lending or Borrowing Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

PJC 10.4

PJC 10.5

Employment as Defense under Workers’ Compensation Act. . . . 131

PJC 10.6

Scope of Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

PJC 10.7

Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

PJC 10.8

Independent Contractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

PJC 10.9

Independent Contractor by Written Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

PJC 10.10 Respondeat Superior—Nonemployee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

PJC 10.11 Joint Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

PJC 10.12 Negligent Entrustment—Reckless, Incompetent, or

Unlicensed Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

PJC 10.13 Negligent Entrustment—Defective Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

PJC 10.14 Negligent Undertaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

PJC 10.15 Imputing Gross Negligence to a Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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