Subject to Section 71-3-174, there shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against any individual self-insurer, any group self-insurer, association, agents and employees of an association, board of directors of an association, and the commission and its employees and representatives, or any of them, for any good faith, affirmative action taken by any of them in the performance of their powers and duties under Sections 71-3-151 through 71-3-181. This section does not apply to individual employers who are members of a group self-insurer. Such immunity shall not extend to any acts of gross negligence by any such individual self-insurer, group self-insurer, association, agents and employees of an association, board of directors of an association and the commission and its employees and representative committed in the performance of their duties hereunder.
Miss. Code Ann. § 71-3-179
Immunity from liability
Known as the Workers’ Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 71–71 (99 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Former Board of Trustees & Members of Mississippi Comp Choice Self-Insurers Fund v. Mississippi Workers' Compensation Group Self-Insurer Guaranty Ass'n (2014)
Most recently applied in Former Board of Trustees & Members of Mississippi Comp Choice Self-Insurers Fund v. Mississippi Workers' Compensation Group Self-Insurer Guaranty Ass'n (November 2014)
Laws, 1988, ch. 554, § 15; Laws, 2003, ch. 553, § 7; Laws, 2004, ch. 555, § 13, eff from and after July 1, 2004.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.