Diaz v. Magma Copper Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting dual capacity doctrine when employer did not assume role independent from that of employer during attempt to rescue employee but simply assumed obligations it already owed to employee as employer
• “[W]hile there may be 1 evidence here that Magma was negligent . . . there is no evidence that Magma’s objective 2 was to injure Diaz.”
• employer’s negligent conduct governed by the Act; further, exclusivity provision of the Act barred employee’s malpractice claim against co-worker who administered first aid to employee at accident site
• state inspector's negligent implementation of governmental policy not entitled to absolute immunity
• rejecting dual capacity by statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).