June 11, 2020
Beazley Insurance Co. challenged a prison commissary supplier's bid to disqualify its Lewis Rice LLC attorneys in a dispute over who should cover the supplier's $3.1 million settlement tab in a bribery scandal, saying the firm's work in a separate case doesn't pose a conflict of interest.
May 14, 2020
Lewis Rice LLC is accused of dropping a prison commissary supplier "like a hot potato" when it was offered the chance to defend an insurance company from covering the supplier's $3.28 million claim, prompting an effort to disqualify the firm.
January 31, 2020
A prison commissary supplier caught up in an $800 million prison bribery scandal that imprisoned Mississippi's corrections chief has sued its insurer for $3.28 million to cover its part of a civil settlement with the state's attorney general.