Legal Opinion
Lott v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided August 31, 1993No. Civ. A. 93-T-202-NPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, seventeen employees of the Bonnie Plant Farm, a division of Alabama Farmer’s Cooperative, Inc. (“AFC”), initiated this lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Bullock County, Alabama, against defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Metropolitan Life”) and Daniel L. Frith, a Metropolitan Life agent, claiming that the insurance company fraudulently induced them to buy life insurance. Plaintiffs asserted a number of state-law claims: misrepresentation, fraudulent suppression, negligence, wantonness, conspiracy to defraud, and breach of fiduciary…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Pilot Life Insurance v. DedeauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendonSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. CoyneSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Adair v. JohnstonDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2004
- Owens v. Life Ins. Co. of GeorgiaDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2003
- Commercial Savings Bank v. Commercial Federal BankDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1996
- Bedford v. Connecticut Mutual Life InsuranceDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1996
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