High Court Finds No Immunity for Premises Owner, Despite Wrap-up Policy

Exclusive remedy did not protect Chevron USA from a premises liability suit filed by a badly burned employee of a subcontractor, even though the oil company and its insurer paid nearly $1 million in workers’ compensation benefits, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled. The Mississippi high court specifically rejected an argument by the employer that it should take direction from the Texas Supreme Court’s 2009 ruling in Entergy Gulf States v. Summers, which held that a premises owner acting as a general contractor was immune from a negligence suit because it had acted as a g...