Mealey's (June 18, 2019, 1:03 PM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A life insurance agent was not fraudulently joined to a putative class action suit filed against an insurer and the agent because the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged that the agent had a special relationship with the plaintiffs and acted in bad faith by selling the plaintiffs policies that were not appropriate for the plaintiffs’ needs, an Alabama federal judge said June 17 (Kee Goostree, et al. v. Liberty National Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 19-71, N.D. Ala., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100604)....