Old Equity Life Insurance v. Suggs

PIERCE, Chief Judge.

In this case Old Equity Life Insurance Company, an insurance corporation, appeals to this Court from a summary final judgment entered in favor of appellee Robert Lee Suggs, who, as plaintiff in the lower Court, sued Old Equity for alleged failure to pay benefits under a medical insurance policy.

During the pre-trial skirmishes on pleadings, plaintiff Suggs filed a “Request for Admissions” asking that Old Equity admit that it was “indebted to plaintiff” in the amount set forth in the Statement of Claim. Old Equity responded with a blanket denial of “each allegation of…