Question

Presume for a minute that (OK, so maybe this premise was slightly borrowed from the movie The Stepfather, the one from the 1980s, not the terrible recent one), a new college professor moves into town and gets a job teaching math. The new professor is charming and funny and everyone likes him. The dean introduces him to his daughter and they begin an engagement. Shortly thereafter, he begins acting possessive and increasingly paranoid. He begins staying after class, very late in fact. Soon, a chemistry student goes missing, followed by an art student. In a very dramatic car chase scene involving the dean's daughter and the professor, the professor is expelled from the windshield of his car and eaten by an alligator. A fingerprint check establishes that he previously lived in Richmond, VA under a different name and worked as a social worker and was suspected in the disappearance of several college students.

Assume the college did not do a background check and the background check would have easily discovered this information. What would they be liable for? In today's #metoo environment, what liability can companies incur from failure to do due diligence? What about marijuana? It's lawful in many states now, does that absolve the employer's liability for accidents on the job?

Answer 1

The colllege is liable for all the missing students and the professor could be the person behind all this missing cases because he has been the suspect in this kind of incidents before, where he used to live with a different name.The college authorities and the dean will be liable for this case because they did not perform any background verification for the new joinng professor. The companies will be penalised and they can also be asked to stop operations because they are not following the U.S code of conduct regarding any incidence. In this scenario the employer will not be allowed to walk free so easily, he will have to answer the questions to the investigating agencies and he may have to face prosecution .Marijuana a kind of drug which has many problems .but at many places it has got the permission to be used for medical purpose and it has a series of incidence which shows how bad is the drug especially for the youths of the society.