State ex rel. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Sanders

WORKMAN, Justice:

This ease is before the Court on a writ of prohibition brought by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“MassMutual”) seeking to prohibit the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, from enforcing two Orders entered on October 26, 2011,1 requiring Roger Crandall, President, Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), and Chairman of MassMutual, to submit to depositions. MassMutual argues that the Orders requiring its president to submit to depositions are properly the subject of a writ of prohibition. MassMutual further argues that the Orders of the circuit court…