SIMPSON v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CAS. CO.

No. 07-CA-58861.

564 So.2d 1374 (1990)

Gloria J. SIMPSON v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret P. Ellis, Charles R. McRae, McRae & Ellis, Pascagoula, and Alfred L. Felder, McComb, for appellant.

Harry R. Allen and Reilly Morse, Bryan Nelson Allen Schroeder & Cobb, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PITTMAN and BLASS, JJ.


PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

This case comes to this Court for the second time on appeal. Robert Simpson and his wife, Gloria, sued State Farm in Jackson County Circuit Court in 1980, alleging a bad faith refusal to pay a fire loss claim. The jury found for the Simpsons, awarding them contractual damages, compensatory damages, and punitive damages. On appeal this Court reversed and rendered the punitive damages award, reversed and rendered the compensatory damages...

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