Poling v. Peter R. Rylance, Inc.

LETTS, Chief Judge.

This cause is affirmed.

An employer is not liable for injury caused to a third party by his employee’s German Shepherd dog if the bringing of that dog to the worksite is not consented to or encouraged by the employer, of no benefit to the employer, not within the scope of the employee’s duties, and the employer has no knowledge of the vicious propensities of the animal. In such circumstances the employer breaches no duty to a third party who lives down the street from the worksite and is attacked. See Whetzel v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 266 So.2d 89 (Fla.4th DCA…