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· 6/15/2006

State v. Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Citations

  • 932 So. 2d 12
  • 2006 Miss. LEXIS 318
  • 2006 WL 1644025

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • allowing a claim for emotional distress arising from the defendant’s failure to enable the plaintiff to continue insurance coverage
  • remitting $50,000 to $15,000 where plaintiff failed to present proof of permanent injury
  • remitting $50,000 to $15,000 where plaintiff failed to present proof of permanent injury
  • “this court recognizes an independent cause of action in tort arising from an insurer’s common law duty of good faith.”
  • court recognizes an independent cause of action in tort for insurer’s breach of the common law duty of good faith arising out of contractual relationship
  • failure of defendant to file motion to strike or request to revise charge fatal to attack on sufficiency of complaint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Carlson, Cobb, Diaz, Dickinson, Easley, Graves, Randolph, Smith, Waller

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