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39 U. Fla. L. Rev. 925 (1987)
Torts: Does the Negligent Entrustment Doctrine Apply to Sellers

handle is hein.journals/uflr39 and id is 933 raw text is: NOTE TORTS: DOES THE NEGLIGENT ENTRUSTMENT DOCTRINE APPLY TO SELLERS? I. INTRODUCTION ........................... 925 II. SELLERS MAY BE LIABLE UNDER THE NEGLIGENT ENTRUSTMENT DOCTRINE: CALIFORNIA ............ 929 A. California Common Law .................. 929 B. California Statutory Law .................. 933 III. SELLERS MAY NOT BE LIABLE UNDER THE NEGLI- GENT ENTRUSTMENT DOCTRINE: ILLINOIS AND TEXAS ................................. 935 A. Illinois Common Law .................... 936 B. Texas ... ............................. 938 1. Texas Common Law ...................... 938 2. Texas Statutory Law ...................... 939 IV. STATUS OF SELLERS UNDER THE NEGLIGENT EN- TRUSTMENT DOCTRINE PRESENTLY UNRESOLVED: FLORIDA ............................... 941 A. Florida Common Law .................... 941 B. Florida Statutory Law .................... 945 V. ANALYSIS ............................... 946 VI. CONCLUSION ............................. 950 I. INTRODUCTION The common law negligent entrustment doctrine creates a new class of potentially solvent defendants from which an injured plaintiff may recover.' This theory allows a plaintiff to sue not only the negli- 1. See Tosh v. Scott, 129 Ill. App. 3d 322, 324, 472 N.E.2d 591, 593 (1984) (negligent entrustment doctrine creates new duty enabling plaintiffs to recover from new class of defen- dants); Woods, Negligent Entrustrent: Evaluation of Frequently Overlooked Source of Addi- tioial Liability, 20 ARK. L. REV. 101, 120 (1966) (negligent entrustment claim enables plaintiff to reach solvent defendant).

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