How Does Agencies Within Scope of Employment Work?

Video Transcript

"You run a delivery business, and have drivers that work for you, and recently one of these drivers, was involved in a motor vehicle accident, resulting in injuries to a third person, and you've heard that you may be responsible, because that employee of yours was acting withing the scope and course of their employment. Hello, I'm Robert Todd, and I'm here to answer the question, How does agencies within the scope and course of employment, work? Well, generally speaking, if the agent of the principal is acting in the furtherance of the principal's business, and is doing what the principal has authorized them to do. What that agent does, can and oftentimes does create liability for the principal. It doesn't matter, that you the owner and principal, were not driving the delivery truck, when it collided with the individual, so as to cause them injury. You authorized that employee to drive for your business, and thus, became liable. I'm Robert Todd, and thank you for watching."