A Texas federal district court granted summary judgment to Transportes del Bajio Zavala Hermanos SA de CV on negligent hiring and gross negligence claims brought by a non-employee following a motor vehicle accident with the company’s independent contractor driver, ruling that while the company may have breached hiring duties by not screening its drivers, the plaintiff failed to establish proximate cause showing that proper hiring procedures would have prevented the accident or revealed disqualifying information about the driver.
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