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Companies face other suits for negligence in hiring, retaining and promoting violent workers. "The defense that employers used to have, that a violent employee acted out of the scope of his responsibilities, has been eroded," observes Karen Kienbaum of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett, a Michigan law firm. When an off-duty store manager chased a child who had urinated on the side of the building and attacked his four-year-old companion, the parents sued the company and won. "The jury said, 'Forget it. The man had a history of violence, and you made him store manager. Then...
...increasing number of consultants -- from psychiatrists to former FBI agents to lawyers and insurers -- are telling companies, in the words of lawyer Kienbaum, that they "should prepare for workplace violence like they prepare for product changes." The San Francisco law firm of Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff, Tichy & Mathiason boasts of its 20 lawyers who work full time on workplace-violence cases; it provides its FORTUNE 500 clients with a training video that identifies warning signs and lists seven ways to prevent such incidents. The Kemper insurance companies in Long Grove, Illinois, offer one-day workshops (price: $250) twice a year...
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...also been presented as a land populated by gaunt miners and ruled ruthlessly by a wealthy elite of powerful iron and war mongers. At various times the Ruhr indeed may have fitted these descriptions, but things have changed. "That is the legend of the Ruhr," says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany's state of North Rhine-Westphalia. "Today it corresponds to reality about as well as the Nibelungenlied does...
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