MDLA Defense wins:
MDLA member J. Michael Coleman and his trial team, which comprised associate, Jacob O. Malatesta and paralegal, Jennifer Hawk, won a bench trial in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi. The case, styled Darrell Taylor, as Next Friend And Father of Damari Taylor, a Minor vs. University of Mississippi Medical Center, was tried on… January 29, 2016 |
The Mississippi State Supreme Court affirmed a directed verdict previously obtained by MDLA member firm Hagwood Adelman Tipton Attorney Carl Hagwood in McIlwain v. Natchez Community Hospital. Mr. Hagwood represented the firm’s client, a pediatrician, in the wrongful death lawsuit in a two-week trial in Natchez, MS, November 2012. The pediatrician had assisted in the…
January 29, 2016
Diane Pradat Pumphrey, Casey D. Younger, and Nicholas D. Garrard of Wilkins Patterson Smith Pumphrey & Doty in Jackson, Mississippi, successfully represented the City of Crystal Springs, Mississippi and the Crystal Springs Police Department in a suit filed by a minor who was injured when she was struck by a patrol car. The officer was… August 14, 2015 |