MINTON, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION.
As a general rule, a party cannot contract away liability for damages caused by that party's failure to comply with a duty imposed by a safety statute. This case presents the question of whether this general rule applies to void a liability-shifting clause in a contract between parties to a coal mining agreement where one side claims economic damages resulting from the other's failure to comply with statutory mine-mapping...
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