( September 8, 2026, 8:27 AM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — In a 5-2 ruling with one justice not participating, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment to a hospital and physicians in a medical negligence suit against them related to a patient’s sepsis and death, finding in part that a genuine issue of material fact remains regarding whether the application of immunity related to the COVID-19 pandemic under state law applies to the claim for failure to timely transfer the decedent to a facility with a higher level of care....