Ex Parte American Bankers Life Assur. Co.

HOOPER, Chief Justice.

The defendants in a fraud action petition for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to rescind a class action certification. The defendants argue that the trial judge abused his discretion in certifying a class. We grant the petition.

The plaintiffs, Douglas Walters and Linda Walters, alleged that, to finance a consumer purchase, they had borrowed money from the defendant Mercury Finance Corporation and that in regard to that consumer purchase they had bought credit life insurance from the defendant American Bankers Life Assurance Company of Florida. They alleged…