Clayborn v. Bankers Standard Insurance

RAY THORNTON, Justice.

Justice. Appellant, Kathleen Clayborn, as mother and next friend of Meranda F. Clayborn, a minor, appeals the September 14, 2001, order of the Johnson County Circuit Court, granting appellee Bankers Standard Insurance Company’s (“Bankers”) motion to dismiss and certifying the case for appeal pursuant to Ark. R. Civ. P. 54(b). Appellant’s sole point on appeal is that the trial court erred in granting Bankers’s motion to dismiss on the grounds that the direct-action statute, which is codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 23-79-210 (Repl. 1999), was not available to her and that…