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Article: Car rental companies: trying to slam the door on vicarious liability.
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- Trial
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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After President Clinton vetoed the comprehensive products liability bill that Congress passed in 1996, tort "reformers" began changing their approach. They stopped cramming all their so-called reforms into one large package. Instead they sponsored single-issue bills or sought to insert particular liability limitations within various bills.
Such is the case with vicarious liability.
A rental car consortium comprising some of the biggest names in the business has been pushing for years for a way to steer around state laws that hold rental car companies liable for the tortious acts of drivers who rent cars. In 1996, the group succeeded in adding a vicarious ...