Originally Posted by
Akulashark
Yup, that AGENT OF clause is the basis of most civil suits for major corporations. If you get run over by a UPS truck, you don't take the poor driver into court because UPS has deep pockets you go after them.
The lady with the hot cup of McDonald's coffee comes to mind, it wasn't the minimum wage earning teenagers fault she spilled the coffee while driving, it was McDonald's' fault for making the coffee to hot.
Yes,
I acknowledge your sarcasm. However since corporations have neither arms, hands, legs or feet, corporations only act through agents and thus if we didn't have agency theory corporations would be wholly immume from any personal injury liability caused, by their tortious acts.