Superior Electrical (Superior) was in the business of installing electrical wiring and related components at new construction sites. Because some employees were assigned company vehicles equipped with company tools and materials and were expected to drive those vehicles to the work sites, Superior required all employment applicants to hold a valid driver’s license. Employees who were assigned a company vehicle were expected to drive for the company during the workday in order to transport job materials and company tools that were kept on the vehicle to job sites. These employees were expected to take the company issued vehicle home at the end of the work day. Superior hired Cory Jones as an apprentice electrician. Jones had completed an employment application in which he stated that he had a valid driver’s license and had not been cited for any traffic violations. These statements were untrue. His license had been suspended because of numerous traffic violations, including careless driving and driving without a license. Superior did not check on his driving record at the time he was hired because, as an apprentice electrician, he was not being assigned a company vehicle and was not expected to drive for the company during the work day. About a year after hiring Jones, Superior promoted him to electrician and assigned Jones a company vehicle equipped with a rack for transporting wiring and other materials to and from the work sites. Superior intended that Jones drive during the day for the company and to take the vehicle home after the end of the work day. On a later date, when Jones’s work hours had ended and he was driving home in the company vehicle, he collided with two cars. The collision resulted solely from Jones’s negligence. Carolyn Carson and her son were severely injured in the collision and they sued Superior. The Carson’s alleged two theories of recovery against Superior: respondeat superior and negligent hiring. Write a four- to five-page paper (not including title and references pages) that addresses the following: Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring. Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case. Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring. Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior. Apply those elements of respondeat superior to the facts given in the case. Analyze whether Superior would be liable on respondeat superior grounds. .

1. Superior Electrical (Superior) was in the business of installing
electrical wiring and related components at new construction
sites. Because some employees were assigned company vehicles
equipped with company tools and materials and were expected
to drive those vehicles to the work sites, Superior required all
employment applicants to hold a valid driver’s license.
Employees who were assigned a company vehicle were expected
to drive for the company during the workday in order to
transport job materials and company tools that were kept on the
vehicle to job sites. These employees were expected to take the
company issued vehicle home at the end of the work day.
Superior hired Cory Jones as an apprentice electrician. Jones
had completed an employment application in which he stated
that he had a valid driver’s license and had not been cited for
any traffic violations. These statements were untrue. His license
had been suspended because of numerous traffic violations,
including careless driving and driving without a license.
Superior did not check on his driving record at the time he was
hired because, as an apprentice electrician, he was not being
assigned a company vehicle and was not expected to drive for
the company during the work day.
About a year after hiring Jones, Superior promoted him to
electrician and assigned Jones a company vehicle equipped with
a rack for transporting wiring and other materials to and from
the work sites. Superior intended that Jones drive during the day
for the company and to take the vehicle home after the end of
the work day. On a later date, when Jones’s work hours had
ended and he was driving home in the company vehicle, he
collided with two cars. The collision resulted solely from
Jones’s negligence. Carolyn Carson and her son were severely
injured in the collision and they sued Superior. The Carson’s
alleged two theories of recovery against Superior: respondeat
superior and negligent hiring.

2. Write a four- to five-page paper (not including title and
references pages) that addresses the following:
Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring.
Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in
the case.
Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring.
Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.
Apply those elements of respondeat superior to the facts given
in the case.
Analyze whether Superior would be liable on respondeat
superior grounds.