Clinton Williams v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

JAMES L. DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

The conflict of laws issue in this diversity case, removed from a Mississippi state court, is which state’s law, that of Mississippi or Alabama, applies to decide whether the plaintiff, a Mississippi resident injured in Mississippi while working for an Alabama resident contractor, has an action in tort for damages against the employer’s worker’s compensation insurer because of the insurer’s intentional bad-faith refusal to pay him worker’s compensation when due. Under Mississippi law, upon the same alleged facts, except that the worker was employed by a…