· 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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