Wilkinson County will soon have a bridge reopening that has been closed for over a year. Rep. Angela Cockerham, special counsel with Wise Carter, worked with the Wilkinson County Board of Supervisors and County Administrator, Bruce Lewis, to secure 1.7 million dollars to be utilized for emergency bridge and road repairs in the county.
Wilkinson County was awarded the funds during the 2018 First Extraordinary Session in Senate Bill 2002, which distributed BP oil settlement funds.
Wise Carter recently sponsored the 2018 Sporting Clay Event hosted by Friends of Mississippi Hospitals Political Action Committee. The event was held at Providence Hill Farm in Jackson, MS. Wise Carter participants included George Ritter, Gene Naylor, Kimberly Howland, Po Lutken and Chris Grillis.
Mark Hodges and Charles Cowan successfully defended an emergency department physician in a wrongful death medical malpractice trial that began on September 17, 2018 in Lamar County Circuit Court in Purvis, Mississippi.
The patient’s family sued for failure to diagnose a ruptured spleen, which ultimately caused the patient’s death. Plaintiff’s expert witness contended the defendant physician performed an inadequate examination of the patient and failed to order a CT scan of the patient’s abdomen during an emergency department encounter following an assault.
Defense experts testified the physician’s examination was adequate and that there was no clinical indication for a CT scan of the patient’s abdomen. After the parties’ presentation of their cases, the jury deliberated for less than half an hour before returning a unanimous defense verdict for the Wise Carter client physician.
We congratulate the following Wise Carter attorneys recently recognized in The Best Lawyers In America© for 2019.
Wise Carter recently hosted the third event in the Focus on Jackson series titled, “The Economic Impact of Downtown Jackson Colleges.” The event featured a panel discussion by Dr. Roger Parrott, President of Belhaven University, Dr. William Bynum, Jr., President of Jackson State University, Dr. Robert Pearigen, President of Millsaps College, and was moderated by news reporter Maggie Wade. The series includes relevant topics of interest for Jackson and focuses on education and community outreach.
For more information, please contact Angie Artman Walker at (601) 718-8846 or aaw@wisecarter.com.
Margaret Williams and Jimmy Robertson recently attended the 95th Annual meeting of the American Law Institute in Washington, DC.
ALI is the leading independent organization in the U.S. producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. Visit the American Law Institute for daily updates of events at the meeting.
Wise Carter Shareholder Elizabeth Hooper is a graduate of the 2018 Leadership Rankin class.
Her team raised money through a chicken tender fundraiser to purchase an AED for the athletic department at McLaurin High School in Rankin County. Congratulations, Elizabeth!
The first Louis “Buddy” Watson Memorial Recital will be Sunday, May 6 at 3:00 pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Jackson.
Soprano soloist, Maddi Jolley, will present a beautiful recital of lyric vocal literature with pianist, Megan Rowan. Buddy Watson was a champion of talented young musicians, and he is honored by continuing his legacy of assisting youthful artists.
Wise Carter recently hosted the second event in the series “Focus on Jackson.” The luncheon featured Ben Allen, President of Downtown Jackson Partners. Ben gave an informative presentation on new developments in the downtown area.
For more information on the series and upcoming events, contact Angie Artman Walker at aaw@wisecarter.com.
On Thursday, April 12, 2018, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled to reverse the Division of Medicaid’s decision to use the Medicare blended rates in and to not exclude radiology and lab charges from the cost to charge ratio for OP services.
The Court remanded the case and “order[ed] the Executive Director to recalculate the Hospitals’ cost-to-charge ratio using the Hospital’s submitted costs in their cost reports, excluding laboratory and radiology services, and reimbursing the Hospitals the appropriate amounts determined using the State Plan.”
Wise Carter attorneys George Ritter and John Sneed served as counsel for the appellants, a group of twelve Medicaid-participating hospitals challenging the Department of Medicaid’s recalculation of their Medicaid outpatient rates.
