legal issues

If the player was to sue for the actions that coach Bill Beam did resulting in a severe neck injury and concussion there will be serious consequences for all parties involved with the school organization. First and foremost is without a doubt coach Beam will be fired immediately for physically harming a student athlete by which in any school in the country is not right. The Athletic Director and School will be held liable by the doctrine of Vicarious Liability or Respondent Superior which holds an employing organization responsible for certain acts of its employees because the law has deemed it appropriate for the employer to be held accountable for the actions of employees. The Conduct of employees is considered to be within the employee’s scope of employment meaning if any action or event happens to occur substantially within the authorized time and space limits, at least in part, or by purpose to severe accountable the organization. (pg.83) The Athletic Director will possibly lose their job as well because they ignored reports by witnesses of abuse by the coach in previous practices and game situations both verbally and physically. The question will arise if the school did a background check on coach Beam to see if any situations such as this one had occurred in the past or anything of that matter in which would have resulted in him not getting hired. This falls under the negligent supervision of the basic question whether a manager acted reasonably in guiding and overseeing an employee’s actions. (pg.87) it’s also falls under negligent retention in whether a manager acted reasonably in retaining the employee’s services. (pg.88) the school might also be looking at fines by the league and higher