New Orleans, Louisiana (February 8, 2007) -- The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today affirmed the denial of the certification of a class of approximately 18,000 Mississippi residents who had not been paid "inherent diminished value" in first-party auto insurance claims.  The Court affirmed the District Court's findings that individual issues predominated over common issues, and that the proposed class suffered from manageability problems.  Lightfoot, Franklin & White attorneys Wynn Shuford and Natasha Wilson represented Alfa Insurance Companies in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Chris King argued the case before the Fifth Circuit.