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In Ivic v Lakovic, a taxi cab company was sued by a customer after she had been sexually assaulted by one of its employee drivers. In this case the Ontario Court of Appeal held that: the taxi cab employer was vicariously liable for the driver's conduct because it had put the driver in a position of authority over the customer the taxi cab employer was not vicariously liable for the driver's conduct because the customer was drunk at the time the taxi cab employer was vicariously liable for the sexual assault because it was reasonably foreseeable that employees might carry out their driver duties in a wrongful manner the taxi cab employer was not vicariously liable because the driver's misconduct was not intimately connected to his functions, in fact, the employer's policies discouraged any unnecessary physical contact with customers