{"id":170,"date":"2025-07-29T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/?p=170"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:27:46","slug":"alert-connecticut-appellate-court-holds-rental-companys-common-law-duty-to-investigate-only-extends-to-inspection-of-physical-drivers-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/2025\/07\/29\/alert-connecticut-appellate-court-holds-rental-companys-common-law-duty-to-investigate-only-extends-to-inspection-of-physical-drivers-license\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Connecticut Appellate Court Holds Rental Company\u2019s Common Law Duty to Investigate Only Extends to Inspection of Physical Driver\u2019s License"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a win for car and truck rental companies, a panel of the Connecticut Appellate Court held in\u00a0<em>Liam Stanford v. Clayton Nogiec<\/em>, 233 Conn. App. 862 (2025), that a rental company\u2019s duty to investigate a prospective renter extends only to physical inspection of the renter\u2019s driver\u2019s license to confirm it is valid and unexpired. Unless the renter shows signs of unfitness to operate a motor vehicle, a rental company has no further duty to investigate a driver\u2019s background or driving record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full Alert on the Duane Morris website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/connecticut_appellate_court_holds_rental_companys_common_law_duty_investigate_only_0725.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/connecticut_appellate_court_holds_rental_companys_common_law_duty_investigate_only_0725.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a win for car and truck rental companies, a panel of the Connecticut Appellate Court held in\u00a0Liam Stanford v. Clayton Nogiec, 233 Conn. App. 862 (2025), that a rental company\u2019s duty to investigate a prospective renter extends only to physical inspection of the renter\u2019s driver\u2019s license to confirm it is valid and unexpired. Unless &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/2025\/07\/29\/alert-connecticut-appellate-court-holds-rental-companys-common-law-duty-to-investigate-only-extends-to-inspection-of-physical-drivers-license\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALERT: Connecticut Appellate Court Holds Rental Company\u2019s Common Law Duty to Investigate Only Extends to Inspection of Physical Driver\u2019s License&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[51],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":51,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}