negligent entrustment

Negligent Entrustment: A person is liable for injuries caused by placing or allowing one to borrow or use one’s property who he knows, or should know, will use it in a manner involving unreasonable risk of harm. In personal injury cases, one of the more frequently seen negligent entrustment examples involves the lending of an automobile to one that may use it to endanger herself or others.

A person owes a duty to not provide a dangerous product or instrumentality to an individual that he/she knows or should know would use that product or instrumentality in a way that would endanger him/herself or others.

If a person negligently provided another with a product or instrumentality with the knowledge of that person’s dangerous propensity to use it in such a way to harm someone, the owner of that product will be held liable.