Richards v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Eldridge, Judge.

We granted appellant-plaintiff Gary Richards’s application for interlocutory review of the state court’s order granting appelleedefendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company’s motion to dismiss for lack of standing. Pertinently, this case arises out of an automobile collision between appellant-plaintiff Richards and appellee-defendant Robert Bufkin, the driver of a vehicle insured by State Farm, allegedly causing injuries to Richards’s lower back. Following the collision, Richards filed a personal injury claim with State Farm. He and State Farm thereafter engaged in…