RICHMOND -- The Virginia Supreme Court says adults have a legal duty to exercise reasonable care when they agree to supervise someone else's child.
The court reached that conclusion in a 5-2 decision Thursday reinstating a lawsuit filed by the father of Jaimee Kellerman, a 14-year-old girl who died in a December 2004 car crash while spending the night with a friend in the Richmond area.
Jaimee and her family had moved to Wake Forest, N.C., in 2002 from Henrico County.
According to the court, Jaimee's father told the other teenager's parents not to let his daughter ride with any young drivers. But the host parents nevertheless allowed the girls to ride with a 17-year-old boy who drove recklessly and crashed.
A Henrico County court will now determine whether the host parents breached their duty to exercise reasonable care.
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