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BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN & CALDWELL, P.C. v. MUIRHEAD

No. 2004-CA-01558-SCT.

920 So.2d 440 (2006)

BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN & CALDWELL, P.C. v. Jack MUIRHEAD, as Assignee of Great River Insurance Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 26, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred L. Banks, Luther T. Munford, Damany Freeman Ransom, James L. Carroll, Jackson, Carlton W. Reeves, J. Douglas Minor, Jr., attorneys for appellant.

Eric T. Hamer, Phillip J. Brookins, John Leonard Walker, Jackson, attorneys for appellee.

Before WALLER, P.J., DICKINSON and RANDOLPH, JJ.

DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. In this case, an insurance company denied coverage to an employee of one of its insureds.1 When the employee threatened a bad faith lawsuit, the insurance company employed a law firm which advised the insurer that the employee indeed had no coverage. The employee filed a bad faith lawsuit against the insurance company, and the trial judge, believing the employee was covered, granted summary...

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