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· 6/17/1992

Miller v. Bristol-Myers Co.

Citations

  • 485 N.W.2d 31
  • 168 Wis. 2d 863
  • 1992 Wisc. LEXIS 332

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a parent corporation may be liable for unsafe conditions at a subsidiary where it assumed a duty to act by affirmatively undertaking to provide a safe working environment at the subsidiary
  • declining to adopt the complete-assumption standard and stating that “[a] parent corporation that assumes a duty to its subsidiary’s employees should be held to a standard of reasonable care even if its actions were only supplemental to the subsidiary’s practices”
  • discussion of \good Samaritan\ rule expressed in sec. 324A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts

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Judges: Day

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