In Re Stonebridge Life Insurance Co.

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

Stonebridge Life Insurance Company seeks a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its order denying its motion to consolidate eleven lawsuits filed against it by real party in interest Lawrence A. Steepler and order the district court to grant its motion. Under the unique circumstances presented here, we conditionally grant the requested relief.

Based on the record in this proceeding, Mr. Steepler, apparently in response to direct-mail solicitations from various cred it-card companies, made several separate purchases of accidental death and…