John E. Hughes III

Of Counsel

Litigation Percentage

• 95% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 1970
• Virginia, 1970

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law
  • Charlottesville, Virginia

Representative Matters

• OBannon v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 331 F. Supp. 2nd 476, 2004 WL 1874816 (S.D.Miss. 2004)
• Joe v. Minnesota Life Ins. Co., 272 F.Supp.2d 603 (S.D.Miss. 2003)
• Turnipseed v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America, 230 F.Supp.2d 727 (S.D.Miss. 2002)
• Aboul-Fetouh v. Employee Benefits Committee, 245 F.3d 465, 25 Employee Benefits Cas. 2295 (5th Cir. (Miss.) 2001)
• Nowell v. Central Service Ass’n, 106 F.Supp.2d 888 (S.D.Miss. 2000)
• Keyes v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 194 F.R.D. 253 (S.D.Miss. 2000)
• Rogers v. Hartford Life and Acc. Ins. Co., 167 F.3d 933, 42 Fed.R.Serv 3d 1059 (5th Cir. (Miss.) 1999)
• Union Health Care, Inc. v. John Alden Life Ins. Co., 908 F.Supp. 429 (S.D.Miss. 1995)
• McCurtis By and Through Love v. Life Ins. Co. of North America, 849 F.Supp. 1141 (S.D.Miss. 1994)
• Benefit Management of Maine, Inc. v. Allstate Life Ins. Co., 993 F. 2d 1530, 1993 WL 177120 (1st. Cir.(Me.) 1993)
• Geisenberger v. John Hancock Distributors, Inc., 774 F.Supp. 1045, Fed.Sec.L.Rep. P 96, 895 (S.D.Miss. 1991)
• Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Larr, 567 So.2d 239 (Miss. 1990)
• Perkins v. Time Ins. Co., 898 F.2d 470, 58 USLW 2652, 16 Fed.R.Serv.3d 327 (5th Cir. (Miss.) 1990)
• Bradshaw v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 558 So.2d 1391 (Miss. 1990)
• Hall v. Allstate Life Ins. Co., 737 F.Supp. 1453 (N.D.Miss. 1990)
• Laughlin v. Prudential Ins. Co., 882 F.2d 187 (5th Cir. (Miss.) 1989)
• Life & Cas. Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. Bristow, 529 So.2d 620 (Miss. 1988)
• Cabell Elec. Co. v. Pacific Ins. Co., 655 F. Supp. 625 (S.D.Miss. 1987)
• Leininger v. Leininger, 705 F.2d 727 (5th Cir. (Miss.) 1983)
• Colonial Life & Acc. Ins. v. Cook, 374 So.2d 1288 (Miss. 1979)
• Lincoln Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Crews, 341 So.2d 1321 (Miss. 1977)
• Neville v. Illinois Central Gulf R. Co., 424 F.Supp. 1349 (S.D.Miss. 1976)
• Illinois Cent. Gulf. R. Co. v. Yates, 334 So.2d 364 (Miss. 1976)
• Interstate Life & Acc. Ins. Co. v. Flanagan, 284 So. 2d 33 (Miss. 1973)
• Crum v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America, 356 F.Supp. 1054 (N.D.Miss. 1973)
• Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Russell’s Estate, 274 So.2d 113 (Miss. 1973)
• Finkelberg v. Luckett, 608 So.2d 1214 (Miss. 1992)
• Deposit Guar. Nat. Bank v. Dale, 28 F.Supp.2d 395 (S.D. Miss. 1998)

Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
  • Member of the Litigation Section
• Hinds County Bar Association
• The Mississippi Bar
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
  • Director 1995-1998

Seminars

• Author of several articles published in national and local legal journals
• Past speaker at many legal seminars

Birth Information

• 1945