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Our organization has vehicles available for employees to drive on agency business (errands, meetings, home visits, etc.) and our insurance provider runs a MVR before we can add them to an approved dri
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posted at 6/23/2010 12:30 PM EDT
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Our organization has vehicles available for employees to drive on agency business (errands, meetings, home visits, etc.) and our insurance provider runs a MVR before we can add them to an approved drivers list. If they don't meet the rather stringent criteria for our provider - and their job does require some driving - they can use their own vehicles if they have proof of personal insurance. Sometimes an EE starts out okay, but ends up with a suspended license for an unpaid ticket. I am trying to figure out hot to keep up with this for those positions that have job description items that require driving. Still, most any EE might drive occasionally. How do others deal with this in terms of limiting liability? I can't see it as efficient to constantly be running MVRs on every employee. |
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posted at 6/24/2010 9:02 AM EDT
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Hi:
While I don't have a problem with mandatory self-reporting after being hired, the notion that the insurance company standards are higher than your company standards for being allowed to drive, certainly creates good fodder for negligent hiring liablity. Arguably, if you let employees drive who fall short of the insurance company standards, you have breached your duty of due care. I trust this is helpful. Dave Arnold, Ph.D., J.D. |
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posted at 6/25/2010 9:09 AM EDT
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and you need to have teeth so that if MVR turns something up that was not reported and the person kept driving (and thereby put the company at risk) they must be terminated immediately...........
Do you really want to go as long as a year of not knowing? Not me. There must be a firm you can hire that will do this monitoring for you for a fee. |
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