The concept you are researching is called vicarious liability. A
search in Yahoo for "vicarious liability" (with the quotes)
yields tons of examples. Here is a good discussion of the
concepts:
http://www."vicarious
liability"law.du.edu/heppenstall/vicarious_tort_liability.htm
Here's a case in which the CEO was held liable for the acts of
employees but the board members were not:
http://www.van.stikeman.com/newslett/MinJun01-3.doc
I also did a search for "ceo was liable" and got some hits that
look promissing.
Good luck.
McGyver
Hi everybody, thankyou for looking!!
i'm a student working on a really important project and i
desperately
need some info regarding court cases in which company directors
have
been held directly accountable for the actions of employees
beneth
them e.g. the enrolement process is found to be blatantly biased
toward people of a certain colur and a director had has to
resign/
stand down after it was made apparant...
ANYTHING would help where directors/CEOs of large companys were
found
to be responsible for and were made accountable for the actions
of
people beneth them, actions which they would not necessarily
have had
first hand involvment in.
please please PLEASEEEEEEEEE let me know if you can help and
give
links to any cases (i need to show evidence) if its possible!
Thankyou again for looking and taking the time to read this
(sorry
about any spelling errors!),
kindest regards,
kim
