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PARACELSUS HEALTH CARE CORP. v. WILLARD

Nos. 97-CA-01494-SCT, 93-CA-00021-SCT, 92-CA-01274-SCT and 92-CA-00996-SCT.

754 So.2d 437 (1999)

PARACELSUS HEALTH CARE CORPORATION v. Carolyn WILLARD and Bettie Sue Sumner. Bettie Sue Sumner v. Paracelsus Health Care Corporation, Paracelsus Senatobia Community Hospital, Inc., and Carolyn Revel. Bettie Sue Sumner v. Paracelsus Health Care Corporation, Paracelsus Senatobia Community Hospital, Inc., and Carolyn Revel. Carolyn Willard v. Paracelsus Health Care Corporation, Paracelsus Senatobia Community Hospital, Inc., Carolyn Revel and Danny Swindle.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Hewes, III, Cynthia L. Eldridge, Meta V. Swain, Jackson, Gerald W. Chatham, Sr., Hernando, Attorneys for Appellant.

Nancy Allen Wegener, Michael T. Lewis, Clarksdale, Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE PRATHER, C.J., BANKS AND SMITH, JJ.

BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. In this appeal, this Court is faced with challenges to a punitive damages award based on retaliatory discharge and tortious breach of contract. We conclude that the award was justified and was not excessive under either traditionally common law standards or the federal constitutional statutes announced in BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559, 116 S.Ct. 1589, 134 L.Ed.2d 809...

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