"Sarah Banick" wrote in message
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Why? If it was the manager's job to ensure the tests are carried out, and
he didn't,
then why is the owner responsible?

If I own shares in a company that kills someone due to negligent
management, do I and
the other shareholders get prosecuted rather than the company's
management?

Theoretically, the shareholders should lose value of their shares.

Only if the company goes bust, and anyway that's not prosecution, that's just losing
an investment.

But, at
least in US corporations, the legal structure of the corporation places that
final responsibilty in management -- the Board members who are elected by
the shareholders. They are all insured in case of this.

We're talking about criminal responsibility. How can you insure against getting set
to prison for manslaughter?

But was the hotel a corporation, or just a small business? If it is a small
business, the owner is responsible, because he/she hired the manager to
represent him/her. The buck stops here. Of course, I'm making comments based
on US concepts that are probably useless in Greece, so I'll shut up now.

Really? So if you hire someone who does something stupid, illegal, or negligent, you
are responsible? Even if there is no way you could have known or suspected they were
incompetant or crooked?

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Andy