When a Mississippi family gets hurt, the fight is almost always with an insurance company. I built this firm to take that fight on directly.
I’m Christopher Weldy. I represent people who have been injured in Mississippi — in wrecks, on the job, on someone else’s property, or by a carrier that refuses to honor the policy it sold. My practice is deliberately narrow so I can give every client direct attorney attention, and deliberately local so the advice you get is tied to how cases actually move through Mississippi courts.
If you’re here because something bad happened and you’re not sure what to do next, the call is free. If I can help, I’ll tell you how. If I can’t, I’ll tell you that too and point you in the right direction.
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Most personal injury pages in Mississippi read the same way: a list of practice areas, a stock photo of a gavel, a promise that the lawyer “fights for you.” That language is so common it has stopped meaning anything. Here is what actually makes this firm different, in terms you can check against any other lawyer you talk to.
When you call, you get me. When you email, you get me. When you have a question about what the adjuster just said, or what a medical bill means, or what comes next, you get me. I keep my caseload deliberately lean so every client has a real lawyer handling their case, not a paralegal running a form-letter assembly line.
This is a Mississippi firm built for Mississippi cases. I know the intersections where wrecks keep happening in Hinds, Rankin, Madison, Simpson, Copiah, and Yazoo counties. I know which circuit judges set early trial dates and which ones take longer. I know how different national insurance carriers treat Mississippi claimants, and I know which adjusters need to be pushed harder than others to get a fair number. That local knowledge matters — it shortens cases and raises settlement values.
Big injury firms have expensive buildings, large staffs, and television advertising budgets that force them to decline cases below a certain size. I run a lean firm built on modern technology. That lets me profitably handle a serious — but not catastrophic — case that another firm would turn away, and give it the same level of preparation the bigger firms reserve only for their largest files.
Not every injury lawyer in Mississippi handles insurance bad faith cases. This firm does. Bad faith matters most when the insurance company refusing to pay is your own — a UM/UIM claim on your auto policy, a med-pay claim, a homeowners claim, or a disability claim. If your own carrier delays, denies, or lowballs a claim the policy clearly covers, Mississippi law gives you tools that go beyond the policy itself. Most clients never need that second step. But if yours is the case where it matters, you will not have to go find a different lawyer to deal with it.
My personal injury practice covers the full range of Mississippi injury claims:
If you’re not sure whether your situation fits, call or use the form on this page. The consultation is free, and I’ll tell you honestly whether you have a case.
“Making Insurance Pay” is the phrase I use for this firm because that is what my job actually is. But what it means depends on which insurance company is on the other side of your case. Personal injury cases fall into two different categories in Mississippi, and the leverage looks different in each one.
Most car-wreck and injury cases start here. Someone else was at fault, their liability carrier is responsible, and your claim is a third-party claim against that carrier. Mississippi does not let you sue the at-fault driver’s carrier for bad faith, so the leverage here comes from somewhere else: a well-documented claim, clear medical evidence, an accurate damages picture, and a credible willingness to file suit and try the case. Making insurance pay in this context means refusing to accept the adjuster’s first number, building the file the way a jury would want to see it, and being ready to put the case in front of a Mississippi jury if the offer doesn’t reflect what Mississippi law says your case is worth.
Some injury cases turn on your own policy: an uninsured or underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) claim when the at-fault driver didn’t have enough coverage, a med-pay claim for your immediate medical bills, a homeowners or property claim, or a disability claim. In these cases, the insurance company refusing to pay is the one you pay premiums to. Mississippi takes that relationship seriously. Every insurance carrier that does business in this state owes its insured a duty to investigate claims promptly, to communicate in good faith, and to pay claims the policy covers without forcing the insured to sue to get what is plainly owed. When a carrier violates that duty, Mississippi recognizes an independent claim for bad faith — with remedies that can go beyond the original policy limits in the right case. That is the framework the insurance bad faith practice at this firm exists to address.
If your case is a first-party claim, the single most important thing you can do early is cooperate with your own carrier in good faith. Every insurance policy sold in Mississippi imposes cooperation duties on the insured — prompt notice of the loss, truthful statements, producing requested documents, and attending examinations under oath if the policy calls for one. These duties are not optional, and a carrier that can credibly accuse you of failing to cooperate has a real defense to both the claim and to any later bad faith case. Cooperation is not weakness. Done properly, it removes every excuse the carrier has and forces the file onto the merits.
That is also why you should talk to a lawyer as early as possible, ideally before you send the first letter back to the adjuster. Once a first-party claim is moving, the early decisions tend to be the ones that matter most — what your recorded statement says, what documents go into the file, whether an examination under oath is demanded and on what terms, and how your communications with the carrier are worded. I can advise you on how to meet every cooperation requirement your policy imposes without handing the carrier a defense. In appropriate cases, I can represent you at examinations under oath and handle the carrier’s other formal requests directly. The earlier we start, the more of the file I can actually shape. Waiting until after the denial letter arrives is still worth doing, but it is almost always harder than waiting would have been.
You call, email, or fill out the form on this page. I’ll ask what happened, when, where, whether you have already talked to an adjuster, and what your current medical situation looks like. If your case is something I can help with, I’ll tell you. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that too.
Personal injury cases at this firm are handled on a contingency fee. You pay nothing up front. If we don’t recover money for you, you owe no attorney’s fee.
I don’t hand your case off. You will know what is happening, why it is happening, and what comes next. If something changes in your treatment, or you get a letter from the insurance company, you can reach me directly.
The firm is based in Jackson but represents clients throughout the state — the Jackson metro (Hinds, Rankin, Madison), the Pine Belt (Forrest, Lamar, Jones, Jasper), the Coast (Harrison, Hancock, Jackson), the Delta, the Golden Triangle, and the many rural counties in between where larger firms rarely go. Distance is not a barrier. Modern tools let us handle consultations, document signing, and case updates remotely when that is easier for you than driving to Jackson.
If an insurance company is in your way after an injury, let’s talk. The consultation costs nothing, there is no obligation, and you will come away knowing where you stand.
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