Judge rules Charter must pay $1.1B after murder of cable customer
Seems outrageous that the company used a forged document and it seems that there should be some personal consequences to that (in addition to corporate consequences).<p>The part of this case that raises an interesting question for me is whether Charter&#x27;s employment of this individual was reasonable. If Charter conducted a background check and saw that the prospective employee had stolen credit cards and checks before, should that have been sufficient reason to not hire him? It&#x27;s not as if the prospective employee had a prior murder conviction. Even if the prospective employee did have a prior murder conviction: if people feel that the company should not hired the employee, then that seems like it would have a chilling effect on the hiring of felons. From that perspective, it seems excessive to hold the company accountable for this particular action (assuming that this has not been an issue with other employees).