Timmy Vuncannon v. United States

This case asks whether plaintiff Timmy Vuncannon, a county jail inmate, was covered under the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Act (“MWCA”) and thus is entitled to compensation benefits for injuries sustained while he was laboring on a work detail program maintained by Appellant Tippah County (“the County”). The incarcerating county and the medical corporation that treated Vuncannon seek reimbursement of medical expenses from Appellee, Mississippi Public Entities Workers’ Compensation Trust (“MPE”), the provider of workers’ compensation insurance for the County. Concluding as a matter of law…