J & J TIMBER CO. v. Broome

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting the rule of “[a] majority of states . . . that the release of a tortfeasor thereby releases the tortfeasor’s principal for all claims of vicarious liability, despite any reservation of rights”
• where an underlying personal injury claim has been disposed of, a loss of consortium claim 10 cannot be maintained
• where an underlying personal injury claim has been disposed of, a loss of consortium claim cannot be maintained
• “Mississippi law dictates that if the underlying personal injury claim is disposed of, the loss of consortium claim cannot be maintained on its own.”
• “Where a party’s suit against an employer is based on respondeat superior, the vicarious liability claim itself is extinguished when the solely negligent employee is released.”
• “Loss of consortium is . . . derivative, and Mississippi law dictates that if the underlying personal injury claim is disposed of, the loss of consortium claim cannot be maintained on its own.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).