Labor/Employment
Apr. 9, 2024
Plaintiffs want negligent hiring claim added to DoorDash case
The driver, an immigrant from Russia, had a California driver’s license for a month and half before the crash and was distracted by DoorDash’s navigation on his phone.
The family of a Chinese tourist struck and killed by a DoorDash delivery driver in Los Angeles seek to add an allegation of negligent hiring to their wrongful death complaint against the food delivery platform.
The motion for leave to file a second amended complaint says that the driver, Vladimir Tishchenko, had a driver’s license for a month and a half before the fatal car crash in June 2023.
“Indeed, according...