‘If you go to lunch and give your car to someone and an accident happens, you’d be liable for that. Same thing happens here,’
Of course not. Absurd. This lawyer has gotten the idea that since so much stupidity is succeeding, he would try his own brand.
This suit won’t last five minutes in court, if it ever gets there. And the lawyer might be disbarred.
What law school did that lawyer attend, and how did he ever graduate? First, the dealership is an independent contractor, so there’s no agency theory involved, and, next, unless the owner could reasonably foresee that the dealership employed dangerous mechanics, there is no proximate cause under negligence.