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In October,  Hire Image  reported on the tragic story where a Florida woman was beaten to death by a home delivery worker contracted by Best Buy.  Now, Florida legislators want something done to prevent this from happening again.  On Tuesday, a bill called the “Evy Udell Public Safety Act,” after the Boca Raton woman who was killed, was filed in the Florida House of Representatives to require “home delivery service providers” who provide delivery services for a retailer to complete local and national criminal background checks for all home delivery workers.  The bill would also prohibit delivery workers who have committed certain crimes in the past from entering consumers’ homes or be unsupervised with a consumer. “Home delivery service provider” is defined as “a person or entity who, for compensation, contracts for or engages in the loading, transportation or shipment, or unloading of household goods as part of a home delivery service at  Hire ...

Detectives in Florida worked for years trying to capture Sondra Better’s killer.  Despite the blood, fingerprints, and DNA he left behind, he seemed to disappear. That was until Todd Barket, 51, applied for a job a few months ago that required a background check and fingerprints at  Hire Image . His prints matched those the police submitted to a national database back in 1998, after the murder.  Barket has since been arrested and now faces first degree murder charges. This is yet another reminder of the many benefits of background screening at  Hire Image . Not only does it help protect employers, employees, and workplaces, but it may, as in this instance, bring painful, but needed closure to people who have been looking for answers for a very long time. Click here to read the full story. Contact us at  Hire Image  if you have any questions or need help with your background screening program. Originally Posted:- https://www.hireimage.org/backgr...

The family of Evelyn Smith Udell, the 75-year-old Boca Raton, Florida woman who was fatally beaten and burned by a worker delivering a washer and dryer to her home is suing Best Buy.  The wrongful-death lawsuit alleges that Best Buy, where she purchased the washer and dryer, failed to warn her of the third-party companies that they had neither investigated nor supervised for their deliveries; in this case, JB Hunt and XM Delivery Service. According to the police report, on August 19, 2019, Jorge Lachazo, 21, beat Smith Udell with a mallet, then doused her with a chemical, setting her on fire.  He fled the scene in the delivery truck, while his coworker called 911.  Smith Udell later died in the hospital from her injuries. “We have filed a lawsuit against Best Buy, JB Hunt and XM Delivery Service to hold them accountable for failing to conduct adequate background checks on the workers they’re sending to customers’ homes,” said Nick Panagakis, the family’s attorney...