Former Board of Trustees & Members of Mississippi Comp Choice Self-Insurers Fund v. Mississippi Workers' Compensation Group Self-Insurer Guaranty Ass'n

¶ 22. The purpose of an appeal from an interlocutory order is to obtain appellate resolution on a question of law that may: “(1) [mjaterially advance the termination of the litigation and avoid exceptional expense to the parties; or (2)[p]rotect a party from substantial and irreparable injury; or (3)[r]esolve an issue of general importance in the administration of justice.” Miss. R.App. P. 5(a). See also Kilgore v. Barnes, 490 So.2d 895, 896 (Miss.1986) (the Court grants interlocutory appeals to “finally settle the controlling principles of law in the case”).

¶ 23. Comp Choice petitioned the…