You can outsource, but have to supervise what is being done in your name. If the garbage company spilled your garbage in the street and it blew on neighbor's property, you'd more than likely pick it up and then call the garbage company to complain. If the lawn service insisted on cutting the lawn while your children or grandchildren were playing kickball on the lawn, you'd likely get the kids off the lawn or tell the mower guy to cut it later. That's my point. You can't avoid liability by simply outsourcing.
By the way, I wonder how you, me, or for that matter, anyone else would feel about having your credit trashed by repetitive credit checks fraudulently submitted over and over after you brought the situation to the credit card company and they refused to even consider what they might do to make it right. This guy was not trying to win the "lotto"
- he just wanted to clear his good name after having done absolutely nothing wrong. I don't see anything sinister, greedy or litigious about that. HD simply ignored the guy's calls, ignored his lawsuit, ignored the judgment and in the end has to sleep in the bed they made for themselves.
Everybody blames those who simply enforce the law, which has been around for a long time and at it's base is designed to protect people from the wrongs of others. The problem is not judges, juries or litigants, its just that nowadays corporate america too often wants to ignore owning up to their responsibilities when their actions directly affect someone else. Then they hire corporate spin doctors to make themselves out to be the victims. Reminds me of this totally obscene medical malpractice insurance debate, which has nothing to do with jury verdicts and a whole lot more to do with the insurance companies's mismanagement of their investment portfolios, and if the yield isn't there to generate profits then they raise the premiums. So, we limit recovery for med-mal plaintiffs - tell that to the brain damaged guy with 4 kids who went in for elective surgery and the anethesia went bad. Oh, gee, I forgot, his family can go on welfare! But that's another debate and entirely symptomatic of the weak minded (or on the take) politicians who happen to be in control of the country right now.
Mutt