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   State Courts - Mississippi - August 8, 2006

  
Jones v. Southern United Fire Ins., NO. 2005-CA-00446-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment was properly awarded to an insurance agency and an insurer in an insured's action alleging that she was wrongfully denied uninsured motorist coverage where the insured failed to meet the requirements of requesting uninsured motorist coverage for a renewal policy in writing under Miss. Code Ann. § 83-11-101(2) (Rev. 1999).

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Kelly v. State, NO. 2004-KA-01961-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of grand larceny did not violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution where he was sentenced within the mandatory statutory limits set out in Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-83 (Rev. 2000) for habitual offenders.

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Morris v. Ford Motor Co., NO. 2004-CA-02218-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment was properly awarded to defendants in plaintiffs' suit for negligence after malfunction on plaintiffs' automobile allegedly caused automobile to catch on fire, resulting in burning of plaintiffs' home, where plaintiffs failed to show genuine issue of fact with regard to whether injuries they suffered were foreseeable to defendants.

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Piney Woods Country Life Sch. v. Young, NO. 2005-WC-01839-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Substantial evidence supported existence of permanent injury to the employee, level of disability it caused, and calculation of earning capacity. The employee's former earnings as a part-time employee of the same school should have been included in calculating average weekly wage, pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 71-3-31.

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Richardson v. Grand Casinos of Miss., Inc. - Gulfport, LLC, NO. 2005-CA-00582-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: A grant of summary judgment in favor of a casino in a patron's negligence action was appropriate because the stairs were not a dangerous condition. Photographs showed that the top step was clearly a different color from the preceding flooring, and that the carpet at the bottom of the two steps was distinguishable from the steps.

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Rumfelt v. State, NO. 2004-KA-02497-COA, COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI, August 8, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's conviction for felony child abuse was appropriate because an unrecorded bench conference was not sufficient to enter a proper objection on the record. The bench conference was unrecorded and the court could not speculate as to the context of the discussion.

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