Trio of Copeland Cook attorneys obtain defense verdict in employment case

Copeland, Cook, Taylor and Bush, P.A.  (Ridgeland, MS)

Jim Moore, Rebecca Blunden, and Jason Marsh of Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush obtained a defense verdict in an employment case on behalf of one of Mississippi’s most prominent insurers. The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and involved numerous state and federal employment law claims.  Specifically, a former insurance agent for the company brought Title VII sex discrimination and whistleblower claims in connection with the termination of her agent contract.

After six (6) years of litigation, which involved numerous dispositive motions and the defendants successfully taking an interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the case was finally tried to a jury in June of 2024.

After a week-long trial, it took the jury only a couple of hours to return a verdict for the defense.  No appeal was pursued.