Thomas E. Vaughn
(Member)
Benjamin U. Bowden
(Member)
Eric D. Wooten
(Member)
Allyson Leah Vaughn
(Associate)

Benjamin U. Bowden
(Member)

Areas of Emphasis

  • Insurance Defense
    • Workers’ Compensation
    • Medical Malpractice
  • Business Law
  • Personal Injury
  • Admiralty and Maritime Law
    • Jones Act
    • Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act
  • Social Security
  • Premises Liability


Education

  • University of Mississippi, J.D., 1987
    • Phi Alpha Delta
  • Belhaven College, B.S., 1984

Associations

  • Mississippi Bar Association
    • Workers’ Compensation Division, Mediator
    • Conducted numerous seminars on Workers’ Compensation
    • Served as a lecturer for the Gulf Coast Regional Bar meeting on the status of gaming employees. 
  • Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
  • First Presbyterian Church of Biloxi, Mississippi
    • Deacon
    • Past Chairman of the Board of the Gulf Coast Youth for Christ
  • Harrison County Bar Association
  • Gulf Coast Claims Association
  • Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Gulf Coast Risk Managers Association

Admitted

  • Mississippi 1987, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Northern and Southern District of Mississippi; United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Reported Cases: Jones v. Jones Glass; American Commercial China v. Necaise, 687 So.2d 805 (Miss. App. 1998); Jackson County School Dist. V. South Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Fund, 727 So.2d 727 (Miss. App. 1998); Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. v. Holliman, 765 So.2d 564 (Miss. App. 2000); Sellers v. Tindall Concrete Products, Inc., 878 So.2d 1096 (Miss. App. 2004); Di Grazia v. Park Place Entertainment, 914 So.2d 1232 (Miss. App. 2005).

Born: Gulfport, Mississippi, January 19, 1962

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