Personal Injury Attorneys in Mississippi

Ellen Kelly died after latex exposure during surgery at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. A form from an earlier procedure at the same hospital already recorded her latex allergy. The jury found against the hospital and cleared the physicians, on the reasoning that the nurses and the doctors owed separate duties.

Matthew Feldman, 32, was a passenger being driven back to a work cabin by a co-worker who had been drinking. In heavy rain the driver hydroplaned at about 50 mph and hit a guardrail head-on. The rail went through the engine and into the passenger cab, pinning Feldman against the rear window. His right leg was amputated.

Jessie Lee Williams Jr., 40, a father of seven, was booked into the Harrison County Adult Detention Center in Gulfport on misdemeanor charges on February 4, 2006. In the booking room Sgt. Ryan Teel and other guards punched and kicked him while he was restrained, Tasered him, pepper-sprayed him through a spit mask, wrapped a soaked sheet over his face and beat him in a restraint chair. He was brain dead by February 6. Teel was sentenced to life. Harrison County settled the family's civil rights suit in July 2007 for $3,500,000.

On June 25, 2014 John Williams Jr., a certified crane operator at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in Pascagoula, was in the cab of a Manitowoc Model 16000 crawler crane during a three-crane lift of a ship's bow when the cranes began pulling apart and his tipped. The 18,000-pound steel counterweights stacked on its rear slid forward and struck the cab, throwing him eight feet head-first onto concrete. He survived, permanently incapacitated. A Gulfport jury found Manitowoc never warned operators that could happen and awarded $8,500,000; after fault was split 50/40/10 the judgment against Manitowoc was $3,400,000, and the Fifth Circuit affirmed in 2018.