Ex Parte Daimlerchrysler Corp.

LYONS, Justice.

DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Rental Car Finance Corporation, Dollar Rent-A-Car, and PRP Enterprises/PRT Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Dollar Rent-A-Car, defendants in four actions arising out of a single motor-vehicle accident, have filed seven petitions for a writ of mandamus challeng*930ing the trial court’s orders concerning venue for the four actions. This Court consolidated these cases for purposes of writing one opinion. Some, but not all, of the petitions assert that venue is improper in the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson Circuit Court. Some, but not all, of the petitions…