Flores v. Autozone West, Inc.

Opinion

BEDSWORTH, J.

This appeal stems from a summary judgment entered in favor of AutoZone West, Inc. AutoZone successfully asserted below that it could not be held liable for the damages caused by its employee’s physical assault of a customer at an AutoZone store after the customer had spoken to him in an arguably insulting manner. According to AutoZone, the employee’s conduct was outside the scope of his employment as a matter of law, because it “was not ‘fairly attributable to work-related events or conditions.’ ” We disagree. In our view, the evidence in this case supports the reasonable…