Legal Opinion
Piña Ex Rel. Estate of Piña v. Gruy Petroleum Management Co.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided April 12, 2006No. 25,219, 24,960PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALARID, Judge.
{1} This case turns upon the interpretation of NMSA 1978, § 56-7-2 (1999), commonly known as the Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Statute. We hold that Section 56-7-2, as amended in 1999, is an expression of a “fundamental principle of justice,” which is to insure the safety of persons and property at well sites within New Mexico, and that a choice of law provision applying Texas law, by which an indemnitee may be indemnified against its own negligence, is void as violative of the public policy of New Mexico. Recognizing that previously we may have underestimated the force of the…
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- Amoco Production Co. v. Action Well Service, Inc.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1988
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