Negligent hiring is a specific legal claim made by a person injured at the hands of an employer’s employee. The injured party could be a client of the employer or a coworker of the harmful worker.
In bringing these claims, injury victims assert that an employer is liable for their injuries provided that the employer
knew or
should have known of the employee’s risk to cause harm prior to staffing the harmful worker.
These claims are based on a state’s “negligent hiring, supervision, and retention laws.”