Law Ethics for Managers

Scenario 1Family Auto Repair (FAR) hired Marty Anderson for a position in their auto body shop in Memphis. Three months later, FAR promoted Marty and transferred him from Memphis to their new facility in Jackson, 90 minutes from Marty’s house. Marty continued to live in Memphis and commuted 90 minutes each way to work. Although Marty owned his own car, FAR allowed him to use a company-owned pickup truck to commute to and from work. Once or twice a week, Marty either picked up parts at the Memphis shop on his way to work and delivered them to Jackson, or he dropped off parts from Jackson at the Memphis shop on the way home. With his boss’s knowledge, Marty also used the FAR truck during working hours to run some personal errands. After Marty left work in the company truck on a Friday, he delivered parts to the Memphis facility at 6 p.m. Marty stopped to pick up a pizza and then drove to his brother’s house, which was about ten miles from his home. Marty ate the pizza with his brother, drank a few beers, and fell asleep. At 1 a.m., Marty woke up and drove the truck to a store to buy some cough medicine for his brother’s little boy. On the way back to his brother’s house, Marty fell asleep at the wheel and hit another car, severely injuring himself and Steve Spritzer, the other driver. After the driver sued Marty and FAR, FAR’s insurance company refused to cover Marty or to defend or indemnify him in the law