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SmithPhillips Landowners Reach Settlement with Navy
Two SmithPhillips clients have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the United States Navy regarding compensation for their land taken for use by Special Boat Team 22 as a special operations live-fire riverine training range along the Pearl River in Hancock County, Mississippi. The primary mission of SBT-22, based at the Stennis Space Center, is . . .
Mississippi Supreme Court Rules in Nationally-Watched Anti-Concurrent Cause Case
The recent Corban opinion by a unanimous Mississippi Supreme clears up a question of tremendous importance to homeowners across the country. More and more people live in coastal and other areas subject to catastrophes such as hurricanes or earthquakes. Homeowners can depend on their contracts of insurance only if the courts are willing to enforce those contracts. The Corban case has been watched by courts and legal scholars throughout the nation.
Overloaded Trucks: Jury Awards $30 Million for Catastrophic Injury
August 14, 2009: A Desoto County Mississippi jury returned a $30 Million verdict today for SmithPhillips client Ethan Bryant and his parents, Carey Bryant and Kateri Bryant, as a result of catastrophic injuries suffered in a 2006 collision caused by an overweight gravel truck. Ethan Bryant, sixteen years old at the time of the collision, was catastrophically injured when a gravel truck, overloaded by more than twenty thousand pounds, was unable to stop for a red light.
Investment Fraud Case Certified & Settled
An investment fraud class was certified by the Federal Court in a new SPMS&N class action arising from a nationwide Insured Money Management Program.
Two More Class Action Victories
Smith Phillips nationwide class actions completed include one on behalf of purchasers of health insurance through Group Associations, and another on behalf of holders of interest sensitive life insurance.
Million Plus Gulf Coast Eminent Domain Victory
A Harrison County jury in Gulfport, Mississippi, recently returned a verdict in excess of one million dollars for Smith Phillips client, Penny Rodrique, in a Katrina eminent domain case.
Landowners Win Pipeline Cases
Mississippi juries return verdicts of 100% for SPMS&N clients. Energy prices have new pipeline construction increasing . . .
Baby Crib Recall Results from SmithPhillips Product Liability Case
December 2009: Todays U. S. Consumer Products Safety Commission recall of Italian-made LaJobi baby cribs was a direct result of the SmithPhillips case, Stephens v. LaJobi. This product liability case arose from the tragic death of a Mississippi infant whose neck and head became entrapped in the headboard cutout of a LaJobi baby crib . . .
SPMS&N Partners Speak at National Seminars
SPMS&N Partners Richard T. Phillips and Paul R. Scott were speakers at recent national seminars in Miami, Florida and San Francisco, California. Phillips spoke on "Institutional Bad Faith Litigation" at the ACI 12th Advanced National Forum on Litigating Bad Faith and Punitive Damages in Miami. Paul R. Scott was a speaker at the national American Law Institute-American Bar Association advanced seminar on Eminent Domain and Land Value Litigation held in San Francisco.

$30 Million for Brain-Damaged Teenager
Lawyers USA Features Recent Verdict for Smith Phillips Client

$32.5 Million Jury Verdict in Individual Mississippi Deceptive Life Insurance Sales Practices case.
Haggan et al v. Jackson National, No. 96-0295, Copiah County, Mississippi
GM Verdict Nets Over $5 Million
Pegues v. General Motors, No. 96-CA-01333, Court of Appeals of State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds $3.4 Million Smith Phillips Verdict In Defective Tire Case
Tuckier v Cooper Tires, No. 2000-CA-00404-SCT Panola County Circuit Court
$2.3 Million Verdict in Eminent Domain Case
Mississippi Transportation Commission v. Highland Development LLC et al, No. 2000-0189, County Court of Desoto County, Hernando, Mississippi.
$2.3 Million Judgement in Casino Intersection Death Case
Estate of Larry McBride v. Mississippi Department of Transportation, Classic Coach, Inc., et al, No. 94-0217, Circuit Court of Tunica County, Mississippi.
$27 Million Settlement in Class Action
Nickle v. Crown Life, No. 96-3260, United States District Court, Southern District, Texas