Ex parte Alfa Mutual Insurance Co.

SHAW, Justice.

Alfa Mutual Insurance Company (“Alfa”), the defendant below, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the St. Clair Circuit Court to vacate its order denying, and to enter an order granting, Alfa’s motion to strike the amended complaint filed by the plaintiffs, Ronald Gene Lang and Mary F. Lang, in connection with a dispute arising from a farm-owner’s policy of insurance issued to the Langs by Alfa. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

Facts and Procedural History

In 1984, the Langs purchased a farm-owner’s policy from Alfa. At the time the policy was originally…