What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently.
It all has to do with injured workers – both named Dorothy Anderson. One lives in Greenwood, Mississippi; the other in Hattiesburg. At least one was a client of attorney Jay Foster of Ocean Springs on the Mississippi coast.
Foster is accused of mixing up the two women and settling an injury claim on behalf of the Greenwood Dorothy, when the claim actually came from, and the settlement money mistakenly went to, the Hattiesburg Dorothy, according to court records. Instead of admitting his mistake, though, Foster allegedly provided false information to his professi