Allstate Insurance v. Baldwin

Johnson, Chief Judge.

Allstate Insurance Company filed this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order granting Rufus Baldwin’s motion to add a defendant to a renewal action and denying Allstate’s motion for summary judgment. Because no valid renewal action was filed, the trial court erred in allowing the plaintiff to add a defendant to the purported action after the six-month renewal period expired. Therefore, we reverse the trial court’s order.

On July 8, 1992, while driving his pickup truck, Baldwin was involved in a collision with a car being driven by Wendy Wisenbaker. In February…