- Your Background Check Resource
Some
of our best clients are firms that have been burned in the past!
A pharmaceutical
executive had to fire one of his "best" employees for pilfering prescription
drugs and selling them on the street.
A Rent-a-Car Company
recently paid $750,000 to an employee who was raped by another employee who had
a criminal record for rape and aggravated assault.
In 1999, a healthcare
provider was ordered to pay $26.5 Million dollars to the family of a patient
murdered by one of their employees.
In its first
background check, one Hotel found an applicant falsified his application and
was convicted for possession of drugs.
Another firm had no
idea eight felons were among its employees; and two were on trial.
In purchasing a
company, the labor attorney recommended a background search on all employees
before the deal was closed. The search revealed 8% of the workforce was using
falsified social security numbers.
A guard service was
found guilty of negligent hiring after it was determined the service had not
adequately checked an armed guard's background, which included a criminal
record. The damages paid were over $300,000.
An employee who had
previously been convicted of passing bad checks forged signatures on sales
contracts. The court judged his employer negligent and awarded $175,000.
An Appellate Court
awarded $4 million to a woman who was raped by an employee. His
employment application indicated no criminal convictions, when in reality he
had.
A hospital was found
negligent in hiring a kidney transplant coordinator who was unskilled in
reading medical charts and a patient was given a transplant of a cancerous
kidney which resulted in his death.
After driving for a
telephone company for only a week, an employee was involved in a traffic
accident. The jury learned that the company never saw the employee's driver's
record which had five traffic tickets within 18 months. They awarded the
injured party $550,000.
Courts throughout the
Negligent hiring litigation is a growing problem!Damages against negligent employers are being
awarded where the employer failed to perform a reasonable search into the
employee's background prior to hiring.
Courts have ruled that "an employer has a general duty to check
criminal records for employees who will have interface with the public, or who
could have a foreseeable opportunity to commit a violent crime against someone
in the course of their employment".
Today's litigious society has created an environment, which
requires management to be armed with numerous tools.Many employers currently spend little time
verifying the accuracy of employment applications; and, although they would
like to adequately screen applicants, the cost to do so has, in the past, been
financially prohibitive.
Don't
fall victim to a bad apple in your basket, let us
pre-screen your employees to help preserve your treasured assets!
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