The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Mississippi common law of master and servant; Miss. R. Civ. P. 20(a)
- Issued
- 2004-02-19 Feb. 19, 2004
- Effective
- standing (common law) (read as 2004-02-19)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 19, 2004 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- Character
- adjudication
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
This Court found that the lower court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the joinder of these plaintiffs. Travis, 808 So.2d at 936. The Court found that all the claims arose out of ICR's policy of not warning or protecting its workers from the hazards of asbestos exposure, and breaching its non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work. Id. at 935-36.
Penalty
Tort liability for breach
What it required
The Court describes the Mississippi employer's obligation as a 'non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work,' breached by a policy of not warning or protecting workers from a workplace hazard; the duty is the common-law vessel that the health authorities' COVID-19 directives filled. Character as recorded: adjudication (workplace duty construed).
Retrieval note9 pages. Later Mississippi appellate decisions repeat the formulation (e.g., White v. Targa Downstream, LLC (Miss. Ct. App. Mar. 16, 2023): the duty 'to furnish a reasonably safe place to work or to give warning of danger'; identified through CourtListener, not saved).