Mississippi High Court Says Voluntary Payment Cannot Be Recovered By Insurer

(February 1, 2019, 11:20 AM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — Answering a certified question from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the Mississippi Supreme Court on Jan. 31 determined that Mississippi’s voluntary payment doctrine bars an insurer from recovering a settlement payment made on behalf of an additional insured that the insurer believed was not covered under the policy because the payment was not made under compulsion (Colony Insurance Co. v. First Specialty Insurance Corp., No. 2018-FC-00574, Miss. Sup., 2019 Miss. LEXIS 52)....

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