Ex parte Progressive Direct Insurance Company.

BOLIN, Justice.

Progressive Direct Insurance Company (“Progressive”) petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Wilcox Circuit Court to vacate its order dated March 25, 2014, denying Progressive’s motion to transfer this action from the Wilcox Circuit Court to the Tuscaloosa Circuit Court and to enter an order granting the motion. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

I. Facts and Procedural History

The underlying action arises out of a motor-vehicle accident that occurred in Tuscaloosa County on November 11, 2010, between an automobile driven by Ira Sen-tell Robinson and an…