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

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 denied on the sole…