Coale v. Liberty National Life Insurance

•COOK, Justice.

Carlton Coale, the plaintiff in an action pending in the Mobile Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court 1) to order the defendant, Liberty National Life Insurance Company, to comply with Coale’s discovery requests or 2) to enter a default judgment against *394Liberty National for failure to comply with the trial court’s discovery order. We deny the petition.

In 1989, Coale ended his employment as an agent for Liberty National and requested payment of commissions due him. Liberty National informed Coale that, because some of the policies he had sold…