John R. WILLIAMSON
v.
INDIANAPOLIS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al.
Supreme Court of Alabama.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 30, 1999.
July 30, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
W. Lee Pittman of Pittman, Hooks, Dutton & Hollis, P.C., Birmingham, for plaintiff.
Cathy S. Wright and Lorrie L. Hargrove of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham; and George E. Purdy of Bose, McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, Indiana, for defendant Indianapolis Life Insurance Company.
Steve Olen of Olen & Nicholas, P.C., Mobile; and David G. Wirtes, Jr., and George M. Dent III of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, Mobile, for amicus curiae Alabama Trial Lawyers Ass'n, in support of the plaintiff.
Joe R. Whatley of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, for amicus curiae American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), in support of the plaintiff.
Kathy Smith Campbell of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Pettaway, Selma, for amicus curiae Alabama New South Coalition, Inc., in support of the plaintiff.
James C. King of King, Ivey & Warren, Jasper, for amicus curiae United Mine Workers of America-District 20, in support of the plaintiff.
Corrie Haanschoten, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Alabama Education Ass'n, in support of the plaintiff.
Paul P. Bolus, Gary L. Howard, and Alycia K. Jastrebski of Burr & Forman, L.L.P., Birmingham; and Phillip E. Stano, American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Council of Life Insurance, in support of the defendants.
Bert S. Nettles, Mark D. Hess, and A. David Fawall of London & Yancey, L.L.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae State Farm Life Ins. Co., in support of the application for rehearing.
Forrest S. Latta of Pierce, Ledyard, Latta & Wasden, Mobile; Charles A. Stewart III of Sirote & Permutt, Montgomery; and Rhonda Pitts Chambers of Rives & Peterson, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Defense Lawyers Ass'n, in support of the application for rehearing.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
On Application for Rehearing
MADDOX, Justice.
The opinion of December 4, 1998, in which this Court answered two questions certified to it by a federal court pursuant to Rule 18, Ala. R.App. P., is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.
I. Discussion of the Question Whether Certified Questions Are Subject to Rehearing Applications
The plaintiff, John R. Williamson...
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