Susan Hanley v. Thomas R. Forester and G.N. Creel, Administrator of the Estate of Thomas J. Forester

In this diversity action, Susan Hanley appeals the district court’s grant of a defense motion for summary judgment. We reverse and remand.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In the summer of 1986, Thomas Forester, Jr. (Tommy), a resident of Mississippi, while on a pleasure trip and while intoxicated, drove his Corvette automobile into oncoming traffic on a Florida highway. The resulting head-on collision near Pensacola claimed Tommy’s life as well as the lives of four other individuals. Susan Hanley (Hanley), a Louisiana resident and the plaintiff in this case, survived the accident but sustained…