Cindy Walls v. Franklin Corporation

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In an earlier appeal, the Mississippi Supreme Court held that Cindy Walls “could not maintain a bad faith action for refusal to pay for disputed medical services and supplies absent the [Mississippi Workers’ Compensation] Commission’s prior determination that those services and supplies were reasonable and necessary.” 1 The circuit judge interpreted this to mean Walls’s second bad-faith lawsuit — filed after she obtained the required determination by the Commission — must be strictly limited to only those actions the employer and carrier took after Walls had…