Wells Marble & Hurst | Attorney Kelly D. Simpkins

Kelly D. Simpkins

Kelly Simpkins is a senior litigator with substantial experience in life, health, and disability insurance defense; bad faith litigation; commercial and business litigation; and products liability. He has represented insurers in bad faith actions, regulatory matters, FINRA, and sales practices/agent fraud claims both in Mississippi and numerous other states. His cases range from single claimant cases to the defense of complex mass tort actions. He has litigated and tried cases involving sales practices, oil and gas contracts, commercial paper, property disputes, and securities matters, among many others.

Kelly is a member of the Hinds County Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute and the American Bar Associations. He is a former member of the Charles Clark Chapter of the American Inns of Court. Kelly was selected as a Mid-South Super Lawyer in 2008.

Current Employment Position:: Member
Areas of Practice:: Business Litigation
Commercial Litigation; Complex Litigation; Contract Matters; ERISA; Intellectual Property; Insurance Litigation; Life, Health and Disability Insurance; Products Liability; Property Litigation; Reinsurance Litigation; Securities
Litigation Percentage:
: 95% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:: Mississippi, 1991
Tennessee, 2002; U.S. District Court - Northern District of Mississippi, 1991; U.S. District Court - Southern District of Mississippi, 1991; U.S. District Court - Middle District of Tennessee, 2005; U.S. District Court - Western District of Tennessee, 2006; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1991; U.S. Supreme Court, 1991

Education:
: University of Mississippi School of Law; Oxford, Mississippi, 1991; Honors: cum laude
Law Journal: Mississippi Law Journal, Assistant Editor

Covenant College
   Lookout Mountain, Georgia, B.A., 1983

   Honors: cum laude
   Major: Psychology

Mississippi State University

Starkville, Mississippi, 1978-1980

Published Works:

ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits

Co-author Fifth Circuit Section - 2005, 2007, 2010

Published by the American Bar Association Tort
Trial & Insurance Practice Section (ABA TIPS)

Keeping Your Church Out of Court, 2010 edition

Contributing Editor

Published by the Mississippi Baptist Convention
Board

Reported Cases:

Barnes v. Stonebridge Life Ins. Co., 624 F. Supp. 2d 574 (S.D. Miss. 2009)

Tigner v. Bondex Int�l, Inc., No. 2:08CV166-P-A, 2008 WL 4286504 (N.D. Miss. Sept. 15, 2008)

McClendon v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 280 F. App�x 354 (5^th Cir. 2008)

Jackson v. Balboa Ins. Co., 590 F. Supp. 2d 825 (S.D. Miss. 2008)

Lam v. Mid-Century Ins. Co., No. C 08-4413 SI, 2008 WL 5120052 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 3, 2008)

Masztal v. Meritplan Ins. Co., 586 F. Supp. 2d 662 (S.D. Miss. 2008)

Xenakis v. Time Ins. Co., No. CV 08-5225 AHM (VBKx), 2008 WL 5397156 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 30, 2008)

Tigner v. Lea C. Paslay Ins., Inc., 575 F. Supp. 2d 766 (N.D. Miss. 2008)

Kulpa v. OM Fin. Life. Ins. Co., 558 F. Supp. 2d 676 (S.D. Miss. 2008)

Reece v. Kanawha Ins. Co., No. 1:07CV73-D-D, 2008 WL 906512 (N.D. Miss. Apr. 2, 2008)

Kulpa v. OM Fin. Life Ins. Co., No. 1:07cv1136HSO-RHW, 2008 WL 351689 (S.D. Miss. Feb. 6, 2008)

In re Myers, 382 B.R. 304 (Bankr. S.D. Miss. 2008)

Hussey v. Fid. & Guar. Life Ins. Co., 560 F. Supp. 2d 493 (S.D. Miss. 2008)

Patterson v. Radioshack Corp., 269 F. App�x 298 (5^th Cir. 2008)

Fid. & Guar. Life Ins. Co. v. Williams, No. 1:06cv959 LG-RHW, 2008 WL 336605 (S.D. Miss. Feb. 1, 2008)

Verhoeven v. Balboa Ins. Co., No. 06-4891, 2007 WL 4374222 (E.D. La. Dec. 13, 2007)

Mingo v. Meritplan Ins. Co., No. 2:06 CV 1914, 2007 WL 4292026 (W.D. La. Dec. 4, 2007)

McLendon v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 521 F. Supp. 2d 561 (S.D. Miss. 2007)

Graphia v. Balboa Ins. Co., 517 F. Supp. 2d 854 (E.D. La. 2007)

Billings v. Am. Bankers Ins. Co. of Fla., Nos. 1:05cv26WJG-JMR, 1:05cv125WJG-JMR, 2007 WL 603080 (S.D. Miss. Feb. 21, 2007)

Chastain v. Union Sec. Life Ins. Co., 502 F. Supp. 2d 1072 (C.D. Cal. 2007)

Cody v. Pan-Am. Life Ins. Co., No. 3:05-CV-379HTW-JCS, 2006 WL 2792388 (S.D. Miss. Sept. 27, 2006)

Miss. Ins. Guar. Ass�n v. Miss. Cas. Ins. Co., 947 So. 2d 865 (Miss. 2006)

Windsor Vill. of Clinton, LLC v. Solon Automated Servs., Inc., 392 F. Supp. 2d 769 (S.D. Miss. 2005)

Gen. Reinsurance Corp. v. MS Cas. Ins. Corp., No. Civ.A.05-2253, 2005 WL 2039156 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 23, 2005)

Hutton v. Am. Gen. Life & Accident Ins. Co., 909 So. 2d 87 (Miss. Ct. App. 2005)

Jabour v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., 362 F. Supp. 2d 736 (S.D. Miss. 2005)

Jones v. Belhaven Coll., 334 F. Supp. 2d 916 (S.D. Miss. 2004)

Jones v. Belhaven Coll., 98 F. App�x 283 (5^th Cir. 2004)

Alexander v. Stonebridge Life Ins. Co., No. Civ.A.4:02CV64-P-B, 2004 WL 741668 (N.D. Miss. Mar. 24, 2004)

Smallwood v. Ill. Cent. R.R. Co., 385 F.3d 568 (5^th Cir. 2004)

Joe v. Minn. Life Ins. Co., 337 F. Supp. 2d 821 (S.D. Miss. 2004)

Brown v. PFL Life Ins. Co., 312 F. Supp. 2d 863 (N.D. Miss. 2004)

Wash. Mut. Fin. Group, LLC v. Bailey, 364 F.3d 260 (5^th Cir. 2004)

In re Diet Drugs (Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine) Prods. Liab. Litig., No. Civ.A.03-20376, 2004 WL 1535806 (E.D. Pa. June 18, 2004)

Joe v. Minn. Life Ins. Co., 272 F. Supp. 2d 603 (S.D. Miss. 2003)

Marble v. Am. Gen. Life & Accident Ins. Co., 996 F. Supp. 571 (N.D. Miss. 1998)

Jones v. Ga. Pac. Corp., 90 F.3d 114 (5^th Cir. 1996)

Turnipseed v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., 230 F. Supp. 2d 727 (S.D. Miss. 2002)

Davis v. Life Investors Ins. Co. of Am., 282 B.R. 186 (S.D. Miss. 2002)

Ellis v. Wash. Mut. Fin. Group, LLC, No. Civ.A.01-CV-144, 2002 WL 32163527 (S.D. Miss. May 8, 2002)

Davis v. Life Investors Ins. Co. of Am., Inc., 214 F. Supp. 2d 691 (S.D. Miss. 2002)

Pittman v. Weber Energy Corp., 790 So. 2d 823 (Miss. 2001)

Dantzler v. Am. Home Prods. Corp., No. Civ.A.4:00CV68LN, 2000 WL 34333156 (N.D. Miss. Sept. 13, 2000)

Estate of Jackson v. Miss. Life Ins. Co., 755 So. 2d 15 (Miss. Ct. App. 1999)

McArthur v. Time Ins. Co., 889 F. Supp. 938 (S.D. Miss. 1995)

Williams ex rel. Williams v. Jackson Stone Co., 867 F. Supp. 454 (S.D. Miss. 1994)

In re Chateaugay Corp., 146 B.R. 339 (S.D.N.Y. 1992)

Honors and Awards:

Mid-South Super Lawyer - 2008

Professional Associations and Memberships:: Defense Research Institute; Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; American Bar Association; The Mississippi Bar; Hinds County Bar Association; The Tennessee Bar Association; Charles Clark Chapter Inns of Court
Birth Information:: 1960, Meridian, Mississippi
Community Involvement:
: Active Participant in Mississippi Pro Bono Program