Weathers v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Daniel Ray Weathers petitioned this Court for writ of certiorari after the Court of Appeals affirmed the Lowndes County Circuit Court’s dismissal of his claims as time-barred. Finding error, we reverse and remand so that Weathers may proceed in the trial court on his claims.

FACTS AND TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS

¶ 2. In April 1993, Weathers and James McKie, an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”), discussed Weathers’s interest in purchasing a life insurance policy. McKie pitched the idea that Weathers could…