                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF NONJOINDER OR MISJOINDER; LIMITATION ON JOINDER OF INSURANCE COMPANY
(§ 8.01-5)

A. No action or suit shall abate or be defeated by the nonjoinder or misjoinder
of parties, plaintiff or defendant, but whenever such nonjoinder or misjoinder
shall be made to appear by affidavit or otherwise, new parties may be added and
parties misjoined may be dropped by order of the court at any time as the ends
of justice may require.

B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the joinder of any
insurance company on account of the issuance to any party to a cause of any
policy or contract of liability insurance, or on account of the issuance by any
such company of any policy or contract of liability insurance for the benefit of
or that will inure to the benefit of any party to any cause.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-96; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.