( October 20, 2025, 8:46 AM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court declined an insurer’s request to rehear a majority’s ruling that affirmed a jury's $10,457,858.89 damages award against the insurer in a Hurricane Katrina coverage dispute, reversed the lower court’s denial of the insured’s estate’s posttrial motion for attorney fees and rendered $4,500,000 in attorney fees to the estate plus postjudgment interest, standing by its ruling that the lower court’s decision to force the estate to use nearly half of its award to pay attorney fees fails to adequately compensate them for bringing the bad faith action against the insurer....