HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA v. APPLEWHITE

No. 2008-CA-01101-SCT.

53 So.3d 749 (2011)

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA and Hyundai Motor Company v. Ola Mae APPLEWHITE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of and Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Dorothy Mae Applewhite, Deceased; Ceola Wade, as Personal Representative of the Estate of and Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Anthony J. Stewart, Deceased; and Ida Mae Cooper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of and Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Cecilia Cooper, Deceased and Kenneth Carter.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 10, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Collins Wohner, Jr. , Jimmy B. Wilkins , Jackson, Thomas N. Vanderford, Jr. , Michael King , Robert William Maxwell , attorneys for appellant.

Ralph Edwin Chapman , Sara Bailey Russo , Dana J. Swan , Clarksdale, C. Kent Haney , Drew, attorneys for appellees.

Before CARLSON, P.J., RANDOLPH and KITCHENS, JJ.


KITCHENS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. In this wrongful death, product liability case, the jury awarded the plaintiffs $4.5 million, or $1.5 million for each of three decedents, finding that the automobile at issue was defective in both its design and manufacture. In an effort to convince this Court to reverse the trial judgment and to render judgment in its favor, Hyundai challenges the reliability of the plaintiffs' three experts on appeal. We find, from the...

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