Watson v. Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America

PARKER, Justice.

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (“Allianz”) petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the Barbour Circuit Court to vacate its orders to compel production of certain discovery documents for an individual plaintiff in a fraud case involving the sale of an annuity. The requested documents were produced in class actions in California and in Minnesota, and Allianz alleges that the documents are patently irrelevant or duplicative. For the reasons discussed below, we deny the petition.

Background

In 2003, Mary-George D. Watson ' bought an Allianz BonusDex Elite Annuity…