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AMERICAN PIONEER LIFE INS. CO. v. SANDLIN

82-1063.

470 So.2d 657 (1985)

AMERICAN PIONEER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and American Pioneer Corporation v. Fred C. SANDLIN, Jr., as Executor of the Estate of E. Kenneth Ayres, deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 12, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford Fulford of Fulford, Pope and Natter, Birmingham, and Maryon F. Allen of Bell, Allen and Johnson, Pelham, for appellants.

Charles E. Sharp, Eugene P. Stutts, and John H. Bentley of Sadler, Sadler, Sullivan, Sharp & Stutts, and William Atkinson of Fite, Davis & Atkinson, Hamilton, for appellee.

ALMON, Justice.

In this insurance fraud case, the jury rendered a verdict for plaintiff, awarding $100,000 compensatory damages and $3,000,000 punitive damages. The defendant insurance companies raise numerous issues, which we shall consider in appropriate order.

The suit arises from the purchase by E. Kenneth Ayres of an annuity from American Pioneer Life Insurance Company (American Pioneer Life) in 1978. At the instigation of L. Paul McWhorter, Ayres cancelled...

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