Verduzco v. American Valet

OPINION

THUMMA, Judge:

¶ 1 The narrow dispositive issue in this appeal is whether, as a pleading matter, plaintiffs properly alleged Arizona common law negligent entrustment and negligence claims against defendants. Plaintiffs claim that defendants, while in possession of a sports car as a bailee for its owner, gave the car to an individual who was not the owner and did not have permission to take the car, and who defendants should have known was impaired by drugs and alcohol and incompetent to drive. That same individual then crashed the car into plaintiffs’ vehicle, killing one occupant and…