Whitney W. Gladden

WHITNEY WARNER GLADDEN (Whitney) was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1976. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe where she served as President of Kappa Delta Sorority. Mrs. Gladden received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Mississippi College School of Law. She served as a Senator of the Law Student Bar Association and was also a founding member of the Mississippi College Republican Lawyer’s Association. She is currently a member of the Mississippi Bar Association, the Mississippi Defense Lawyer’s Association, the Louisiana Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and the Jackson Young Lawyer’s Association. Her practice primarily consists of insurance defense litigation.

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Recent Trial Decisions:

Sweet Valley v. Alfa Insurance, Marion County, Mississippi, Circuit Court (September, 2010)

Whitney Gladden's Motion to Dismiss was granted in a case filed in the Circuit Court of Marion County, Mississippi, in which she successfully argued that the statute of limitations had run when the plaintiff filed a new complaint. The case arose out of a previous action filed by the same plaintiff in which breach of contract was alleged against defendant for denial of payment or failure to pay full benefits. That case, filed in 2008, was dismissed without prejudice in July, 2009. The plaintiff's Motion to Set Aside Judgment, or in the alternative, for a New Trial was denied, and the plaintiff filed a new complaint on Jan. 29, 2010.

Clyatt v. Jacks, Madison County, Mississippi, Circuit Court (August 2010)

Whitney Gladden was granted Summary Judgment in a case involving a bicyclist who ran a stop sign into oncoming traffic. The defendant moved over to give the plaintiff room to enter the roadway but was unable to avoid striking him. Plaintiff argued that the defendant's negligence caused the collision, while defendant argued that the plaintiff had a duty to adhere to the Rules of the Road. The Court held that because the plaintiff could not recall if he ran the stop sign and there were no other eyewitnesses to the collision, that the plaintiff had not met his burden to present a genuine issue of material fact for trial.

Appellate Court Decisions:

Simpson v. Tillman Furniture Company, No. 2008-CP-01449-COA (Miss. 2009)

The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision granting Summary Judgment based on a motion by Defendant's counsel, Whitney W. Gladden. Filed in Copiah County, the original premises liability case stemmed from the plaintiff falling from a chair in a furniture showroom and alleging that her present medical condition was directly attributable to that fall. Because the plaintiff had numerous pre-existing conditions and was unable to have a physician attribute her current condition to the fall, she failed to show causation and Summary Judgment was granted. The plaintiff appealed the decision which was later affirmed.