EX PARTE LIBERTY NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

1140612.

209 So.3d 486 (2016)

Ex parte LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. (In re: Misty Ann Barton, as administratrix of the Estate of Benjamin H. Miller, Jr., deceased v. Liberty National Life Insurance Company).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 25, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Burnett Smith of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Huntsville; Michael R. Pennington of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham; and Elizabeth W. McElroy of Baxley, Dillard, McKnight, James & McElroy, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Stan Brobston of Brobston & Brobston P.C., Bessemer, for respondent.

Matthew C. McDonald of Jones Walker LLP, Mobile, for amicus curiae Alfa Life Insurance Corporation, in support of the petitioner.

Drayton Nabers, Jr. , Katharine A. Weber , and Kasdin E. Miller of Maynard, Cooper and Gale P.C., Birmingham, for amici curiae Business Council of Alabama, Association of Alabama Life Insurance Companies, and American Council of Life Insurers, in support of the petitioner.


Liberty National Life Insurance Company ("Liberty National") petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Civil Appeals' decision (1) holding, as a matter of first impression, that § 27-14-3(f), Ala.Code 1975, a part of the Alabama Insurance Code, § 27-1-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975 ("the Insurance...

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