Zsigo v. Hurley Medical Center

The general rule of respondeat superior is that an employer is not liable for the torts of its employees who act outside the scope of their employment.1 This case raises the question whether this Court has adopted an exception to the respondeat superior rule of employer nonliability found in 1 Restatement Agency, 2d, § 219(2) (d). Under this exception, an employer would be liable for the torts of an employee acting outside the scope of his or her employment when the employee is “aided in accomplishing” the tort “by *218the existence of the agency relation.”2 We hold that this Court has not…