Smith v. Sacred Heart Medical Center

¶1 An employer is liable for the acts of its employees done in the scope and course of employment and therefore in furtherance of the employer’s business. An employer is also responsible for its own negligence in failing to properly supervise an employee or in failing to protect those particularly vulnerable from foreseeable harm. Here, a nursing assistant employed by a hospital contacted two psychiatric patients in his employer’s hospital. He hugged and kissed one patient and hugged another and suggested they have sex. Both patients went to the nursing assistant’s home and engaged in sexual…