Pedro Cardona Muniz v. National Can Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[njeither mere concern with nor minimal contact about safety matters creates a duty to ensure a safe -working environment for the employees of a subsidiary corporation”
• stating that a parent corporation may be liable for a subsidiary’s unsafe conditions if the parent company undertakes, contractually or through conduct, to provide safe working conditions at the subsidiary
• no duty where par- ent corporation “provided general safety guidelines” that were “not specifically directed to the concentration of lead in the workplace”
• “mere concern with . . . safety matters” does not “create[] a duty to ensure a safe working environment for the employees of a subsidiary corporation”
• “an employer has a nondelegable duty to provide safe working conditions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).