This action was pending in Jefferson County, Alabama. The Plaintiff claimed that the insurer who had issued a lender placed policy had not paid benefits for all the losses incurred and such failure was accompanied by bad faith. Insurer moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the Plaintiff lacked standing to assert a claim because she was not the insured and her losses did not implicate the residual value benefit in the policy. […]

Wells Marble is proud to announce that Chambers USA 2018, an internationally-respected legal directory, has ranked the firm in the category of “General Commercial Litigation”. Wells Marble has also been selected as a “Leading Law Firm” in the 3rd edition of Chambers’ High Net Worth- 2018, the only independent directory specifically aimed at the private wealth market that ranks law firms according to their private client disciplines. […]

On June 8, the Mississippi Supreme Court appointed a long-time and valued Wells Marble team member, Jeremy Whitmire, as its newest Clerk of Courts. […]

On March 29, 2018, Walter D. Willson, Randy L. Dean, and Kevin A. Rogers obtained a unanimous opinion from the Mississippi Supreme Court in Tommy Brooks Oil Co., v. Jerry Wilburn and Wilburn Oil Company, No. 2016-IA-01356-SCT, wherein the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and remanded a summary judgment that had been erroneously entered by the circuit court. […]

On March 22, 2018, Kelly D. Simpkins and Kevin A. Rogers obtained a summary judgment in an ERISA lawsuit in which the plaintiff asserted that her disability benefits had been improperly terminated.  The defendant paid disability benefits for over ten years; however, as part of its continued evaluation, the defendant discovered that plaintiff’s description of […]