Transfer of Structured Settlement Payment Rights Ex Rel. Saucier v. Saucier

¶20. On remand, the chancellor found that RSL had failed to timely plead a claim for damages against Saucier. The majority affirms. I disagree and dissent.

¶ 21. The majority is correct to state the legal principle that “[wjhile Mississippi adheres to notice pleading and has abolished technical forms of pleading, notice pleading does not extinguish a party’s duty ‘to place the opposing party on notice of the claim being asserted.’ ” Maj. Op. at (¶ 9) (emphasis by the majority) (quoting Estate of Stevens v. Wetzel, 762 So.2d 293, 295 (¶ 11) (Miss. 2000)). Unfortunately, neither the chancellor…