Seguro v. Cummiskey

Opinion

DiPENTIMA, J.

The principal issue in this appeal is the scope of an employer’s duty to supervise an employee. The defendant employer, John E. Cum-miskey, Jr., doing business as J.J. Toon’s Cafe,1 appeals from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a jury trial, in favor of the plaintiff Lucio Seguro,2 who was injured when the defendant’s employee, William Leonard, caused a vehicular accident after leaving the premises of Leonard’s employment. The defendant claims that because an employer does not have a duty to supervise his employees off-site, the court should have granted his…