Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Government Employees Ins. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 15, 1999No. 1970673PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOOPER, Chief Justice.
Government Employees Insurance Company (“GEICO”), petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the Circuit Court of Coffee County to vacate an order certifying a certain pending action as a class action. We grant the petition to the extent it relates to the plaintiffs’ fraud- claim, their bad-faith-failure-to-pay claim, and their breach-of-eon-traet claim; but we deny it to the extent it relates to the plaintiffs’ request for a judgment declaring that GEICO has not complied with Alabama’s Uninsured Motorist Statute.
This Court has stated many times that the writ of mandamus…
2Cases cited48 opinions
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