KPIELE-PODA v. PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC.

Case No. 119,375 (consol. w/No. 119,406 Case No. 119,406 (consol. w/No. 119,375.

525 P.3d 28 (2023)

2023 OK 11

Mwande Serge KPIELE-PODA, an individual, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC., Universal Pressure Pumping, Inc., Seventy Seven Operating, LLC, Performance Technologies LLC, Cambelt International Corp., Cambelt International, LLC, Cambelt International, LLC, U.S. Silica Company, Sandbox Logistics, LLC, Sandbox Enterprises, LLC, Sandbox Leasing, LLC, Sandbox Transportation, LLC, and Casillas Operating, LLC, Defendants, and Ovintiv Mid-Continent, Inc., Defendant/Appellee. Mwande Serge Kpiele-Poda, an individual, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Universal Pressure Pumping, Inc., Seventy Seven Operating, LLC, Performance Technologies LLC, Defendants/Appellees, and Cambelt International Corp., Cambelt International, LLC, Cambelt International, LLC, U.S. Silica Company, Sandbox Logistics, LLC, Sandbox Enterprises, LLC, Sandbox Leasing, LLC, Sandbox Transportation, LLC, Casillas Operating, LLC, and Ovintiv Mid-Continent, Inc., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Filed February 14, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Talbot , TALBOT LAW GROUP, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Plaintiff/Appellant, Mwande Serge Kpiele-Poda.

J. Todd Woolery , Jodi C. Cole , and Katelyn King , MCAFEE & TAFT, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Defendant/Appellee Ovintiv Mid-Continent, Inc.

Toby McKinstry , TOMLINSON — MCKINSTRY, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Defendants/Appellees Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Universal Pressure Pumping, Inc., Seventy Seven Operating, LLC, and Performance Technologies, LLC.


OPINION

¶1 In this consolidated appeal of separate district court dismissal orders, we are tasked with deciding two questions: 1) whether the district court erred by dismissing Employee's amended petition, finding it was time-barred; and 2) whether the district court erred by dismissing Employee's intentional tort claim...

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