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LIFE & CAS. INS. CO. OF TENN. v. BRISTOW

No. 57393.

529 So.2d 620 (1988)

LIFE & CASUALTY INS. CO. OF TENNESSEE v. Henry Edward BRISTOW.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Hughes, III, Wells, Wells, Marble & Hurst, Jackson, William M. Beasley, Mitchell, Voge, Beasley & Corban, Tupelo, for appellant.

John Leroy Long, Roy O. Parker, Tupelo, for appellee.

En Banc.

ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Lee County in which Henry Edward Bristow was awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages and $6,000,000 in punitive damages for his bad faith claim against Life & Casualty.

In April 1969 the Life & Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee issued a disability policy to Henry Edward Bristow, an electrician. The part of the policy in controversy here contains the...

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