One of the most significant legal risks facing churches is negligent selection. The term negligence means carelessness or a failure to exercise reasonable care. Negligent selection, then, means carelessness or a failure to exercise reasonable care in the selection of a worker. Negligent selection claims can arise any time that a church’s failure to exercise reasonable care in the selection of an employee or volunteer leads to a foreseeable injury. This topic is addressed fully in Chapter 10.
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