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StealThisSheen posted...

So, in Mighigan, somebody dropped their car off to be maintained at a dealership. At said dealership, an undertrained employee attempted to start the vehicle while standing outside of it, and it lurched forward and crushed and killed another employee.

Due to state law, the management of the dealership cannot be sued, despite their fault in employing the undertrained/underqualified employee. Who can and is being sued, though? The employee, and the owner of the vehicle.

Our country is fucked up.

EDIT: The reasoning being that, under current law, if you drop your vehicle off to be serviced at a dealership or auto shop, it's deemed the same as lending it to somebody else, and therefore you are to be held responsible for anything that happens with it in the process. Meanwhile, the dealership/auto shop is protected from responsibility.

They got rid of respondeat superior generally or just for car dealerships?