SU Business Law Privacy and Internet Law Discussion

Oneof the most fundamental issues in business law involves the question ofwhen a company can be held liable for the acts of an individual person,whether this involves a contractual obligation or a personal injury(meaning a tort). Choose oneof the scenarios below and explain whether or not you think thebusiness is liable for the acts under the principles of agency law. Areal estate agent hires a handful of local kids to do the landscapingof homes that he is trying to sell. In addition to the general payment,he reimburses them for the cost of gasoline for lawn mowers and otherequipment. While mowing a lawn, one of the kids loses control of a lawnmower and it mows down a neighbors very expensive collection of lawngnomes.Ina hurry to get his apartment complex painted, a homeowner hires threepeople he meets at the local home improvement store to do the work.Since they’re not professional painters, he provides all of theequipment and paint needed to do the work. While at the apartmentcomplex, one of them breaks into an apartment, assaults the resident andsteals a wallet.Anentrepreneur decides to open up his own car-for-hire business, andcreates an app allowing anyone to connect with people who need a ride.The passengers pay the entrepreneur, who in turn pays a percentage tothe driver. Other than the app, the entrepreneur has no otherinvolvement between the driver and the passenger. One night, a driverwho is intoxicated picks up a passenger and then gets into an accident,and the passenger is severely injured.