Your company
can greatly increase its odds of winning a “negligent hiring” lawsuit if it
can show that a
reasonable effort was made to conduct an applicant background check. Employers lose 72% of all negligent hiring suits and the
average jury plaintiff award in employment law cases continues
to be in excess of $1,000,000. Negligent hiring is an
employer’s failure to exercise reasonable caution when
choosing an employee. Increasingly, today, courts are holding
employers financially and legally responsible for illegal or
violent actions taken by employees who were not subjected to
reasonable pre-employment screening. In effect,
courts are saying that the employer is responsiblefor
what they know and what they
should
have known about their employees.