Legal Opinion

John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Suttles

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided October 30, 1934No. 7 Div. 56Published

1Opinion of the Court

*297RICE, Judge.

As Bricken, Presiding Judge, pertinently and correctly observed, in the opinion for this court in the case of Jordan’s Mut. Aid Ass’n v. Asberry, 154 So. 120, 121,1 “It is the law * * * that, when an insurance company denies liability on one specific ground alone, it thereby waives all other defenses.” See Travelers’ Ins. Co. v. Plaster, 210 Ala. 607, 98 So. 909, and Maryland Casualty Co. v. Terry, 24 Ala. App. 172, 133 So. 303.

In the instant case there seems no dispute but that appellee made claim as for permanent disability benefits, under the policy, and that her claim, was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Travelers' Ins. Co. v. PlasterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  2. Prudential Ins. Co. v. GraySupreme Court of Alabama · 1934
  3. Maryland Casualty Co. v. TerryAlabama Court of Appeals · 1930
  4. Jordan's Mut. Aid Ass'n v. AsberryAlabama Court of Appeals · 1934

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