An invitee of a club member attends a social event,.The event includes an open bar and three bars are set up in different parts of the banquet room to provide full access and coverage.Each bar is worked by two dedicated bartenders and they are assisted as a group by a barback.The invitee is enjoying the event and is able to consume ten drinks, a mix of beer, cocktails, and shots.The invitee is showing clear signs of intoxication with loud speech, crude language and behavior, and stumbling.After being served the eleventh drink, the invitee is stopped by the manager and told he was going to be cut off.Becoming argumentive, the manager decides it is time for the invitee to leave the event.The invitee is angered but is escorted out of the banquet room.Obviously unable to drive, the manager sends two staff members with the invitee, one to drive the invitee's car and one for transportation back.At the home, the wife is given the keys and the employees leave.After arriving home, the invitee, still angered, grabs the keys and attempts to drive back to the club.On the way, he crashes, hits a tree, and is killed.His car is the only car involved in the accident and he is the only injury/fatality.The tree is on public land.

For the discussion, respond to the following prompts;

• The manager onsite is your subordinate. How would you advise that manager moving forward?
• What would be done differently, if anything?
• Who should be held liable for the accident?
• Other than the intoxication, what other aspects could have been a critical error?