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Two questions were certified for immediate appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court<\/a> in a case against a school bus company, First Student Inc.\u00a0<\/a> The case was brought on behalf of a student who alleged that the misconduct of a driver accused of sexually abusing a student could put the corporation owner at a heightened duty of care to the child.<\/p>\n

\u201cA private contractor providing student transportation services owes the students it transports the same duty of care imposed on a common carrier \u2013 that is, the highest standard of care,\u201d the Second District Illinois Court of Appeals concluded.<\/p>\n

The court considered this other question: \u201cDoes this quasi-common carrier standard of care necessarily require that common carriers be held vicariously liable for their employee\u2019s intentional torts, such as sexual assaults, that are committed outside the scope of their employment, without regard to whether they have any knowledge of any such propensity?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Two questions were certified for immediate appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court in a case against a school bus company, First Student Inc.\u00a0 The case was brought on behalf of a student who alleged that the misconduct of a driver accused of sexually abusing a student could put the corporation owner at a heightened duty 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