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BENNETT v. MADAKASIRA

Nos. 1999-CA-00266-SCT, 1999-CA-01656-SCT, 1999-CA-00755-SCT, 1999-CA-00756-SCT.

821 So.2d 794 (2002)

Gerald BENNETT, As Conservator of the Estate and Person OF James W. Bennett v. Sudhakar MADAKASIRA, M.D. Gerald Bennett, As Conservator of the Estate and Person of James W. Bennett v. Eli Lilly and Company and Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. Gerald Bennett, As Conservator of the Estate and Person of James W. Bennett v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. and Jeffery A. Ali, M.D. Gerald Bennett, As Conservator of the Estate and Person of James W. Bennett v. Jeffery A. Ali, M.D., Eli Lilly and Company and Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 25, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth R. Watkins, Gulfport, attorney for appellant.

Lisa L. Williams, Lee Davis Thames, R.E. Parker, Leslie Joyner Bobo, Christy D. Jones, Lynn P. Risley, William F. Goodman, III, Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

Before PITTMAN, C.J., WALLER and CARLSON, JJ.

WALLER, J., for the court.

¶ 1. On October 19, 1994, James W. Bennett ("Jake") killed his wife by stabbing her more than 200 times. He was indicted, tried and found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and confined at the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. A conservatorship for Jake's estate was established with Jake's son, Kevin, named as conservator.1 Kevin filed several lawsuits pertaining to Jake's medical care and...

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