Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Holman Building Co., L.L.C.

Until today, no published opinion of an appellate court in this State has addressed a case in which a liability insurer had made a dual request for intervention, i.e., a request that the trial court allow intervention under either the procedure outlined in Universal Underwriters Insurance Co. v. East Central Alabama Ford-Mercury, Inc., 574 So.2d 716 (Ala.1991) (“Universal I”), or the procedure contemplated by Universal Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Anglen, 630 So.2d 441 (Ala.1993) (“Universal II”), and the trial court has denied relief under both. The main opinion upholds such a denial in the…