Heavenly Days Crematorium, LLC v. Harris, Smariga & Associates, Inc.

Each of us has a duty to act with reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions that one may reasonably foresee will injure another.1 Tort law as explicated by the courts in the common law of negligence, and as modified from time to time by the Legislature, provides a remedy for a violation of that duty. In some circumstances, an employer may be liable for the negligence of an employee — a principle that has come to be known by the Latin phrase respondeat superior.2

*561Those who belong to certain professions are often said to “practice” the particular profession. They enter into special…