Beth Hanan of Gass Weber Mullins LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, recently obtained reversal of a $1.4 million judgment against a security provider that was premised on the misconduct of one of its security officers. The defense team convinced the Wisconsin Court of Appeals that the company was not negligent as a matter of law because it had no duty to prevent its employee, a security guard at a manufacturing facility, from downloading employee badge photos onto a flash drive, and then taking them home and using them inappropriately, including posting them to websites.

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