Welsh Manufacturing, Division of Textron, Inc. v. Pinkerton's, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an action for negligence wherein the plaintiff, Welsh Manufacturing (Welsh), brought suit against a security guard company, Pinkerton’s, Inc. (Pinkerton’s), for losses sustained as a result of three major thefts. Welsh claimed that Pinkerton’s was negligent in the hiring, training, supervision, or assignment of a guard who was later found to have been a co-conspirator in connection with the Welsh thefts and that such negligence was the proximate cause of its losses. A Superior Court jury returned a verdict in favor of Welsh, judgment was rendered in accordance…