Legal Opinion
Sobley v. Southern Natural Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2002No. 01-60541PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM,
Circuit Judge:
State Farm Lloyds appeals from a judgment of $1.25 million in punitive damages entered against it on a verdict by a Mississippi jury on the bad faith insurance claim of plaintiffs George and Linda Sobley. We conclude that the punitive damages issue should not have been submitted to the jury on remand from this court in the appeal from the first trial in this case, Sobley v. Southern Natural Gas Co. (Sobley I). 1 We therefore REVERSE and RENDER in favor of State Farm.
I
Relying on our description of the factual background in Sobley /, we recapitulate.
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