JESSICA B. MCNEEL

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Obtained a Defense Verdict, along with John A. Banahan, in a malpractice case against a general dentist.  The Plaintiff in the case alleged that the dentist breached the minimum duty of reasonable care and was negligent when a needle fractured and became retained following the administration of an inferior aveolar nerve block.

​

• Obtained a Defense Verdict, along with John A. Banahan, wherein the Plaintiff claimed in a medical malpractice case brought against an obstetrician, that the Defendant physician performed an unnecessary hysterectomy.

​

• Received a Directed Verdict on behalf of a general dentist at the conclusion of Plaintiff’s case in chief, wherein Plaintiff failed to prove that a needle was retained during an inferior alveolar nerve block performed by the Defendant prior to performing extractions.

​

• Obtained a Defense Verdict, along with John A. Banahan, in a suit brought against a general surgeon. The Plaintiff in the case alleged that the physician breached the minimum duty of reasonable care and was negligent in the performance of a medical procedure on the Plaintiff wherein a laparotomy pad was retained.

​

• Obtained a Defense Verdict on behalf of a physician wherein the Plaintiff alleged the physician breached the minimum duty of reasonable care and was negligent in failing to recognize an intimal tear of the Plaintiff’s popliteal artery in the emergency department. Following a week long trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the physician.

​

• Obtained a Defense Verdict in an automobile case wherein the Plaintiff, a pedestrian, was struck by the Defendant’s automobile while crossing a state highway.

​

• Obtained a Defense Verdict in an automobile case wherein the Defendant admitted liability for the accident but contested the fact that the Plaintiff’s alleged injuries were caused by the accident.

​

• Obtained a dismissal on behalf of a telecommunications company in a suit brought by a Plaintiff alleging property damage to his vehicle was caused by a low cable.

​

• Obtained Summary Judgment on behalf of a major insurance company on a fraud claim brought by an automobile repair facility.

​

• Obtained a reversal in favor of the taxpayer/boat owner from the MS Supreme Court from the Chancery Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of The Mississippi Department of Revenue in a case involving the applicability of use tax.