The hospital has outsourced housekeeping services to an independent contractor. A patient, who was injured in a fall on wet flooring, brings suit against the company. Does the hospital also hold liability?
1. No, secondary to the doctrine of respondeat superior.
2. Maybe, secondary to the doctrine of dual servant.
3. Yes, secondary to the doctrine of borrowed servant.
4. Perhaps, secondary to the doctrine of ostensible authority.
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Rationale: Ostensible authority is an application of agency law that allows a principal to be liable for acts and omissions by independent contractors working within the principal's place of business or at the direction of the principal, and a third party misinterprets the relationship as employer-employee. Borrowed servant occurs when a person, while under contract to one entity, is "loaned" to another entity who will direct and supervise the details of the person's work. A dual servant is one who can be shown to serve both entities at the same time. Respondeat superior is the common law principle of substituted liability based on a master-servant relationship.
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