West Virginia Code § 6-12-2

Policy may authorize action against insurance company with or without
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joining driver as defendant.
Any insurance policy obtained in pursuance of the provisions of section one of this article
may, by agreement between the insurance company issuing the policy and the officer, board,
commission or agency applying for such insurance, contain a provision authorizing an action
on such policy to be maintained against the insurance company issuing the epolicy by or in
the name of any person sustaining bodily injury or property damage, either with or without
joining the driver of such motor vehicle as a party defendant, or in the rname of the personal
representative of a deceased person, the proximate cause of whose death was the negligence
of the driver. Such provision shall be valid and enforceable if set forth in the body of the
policy or in a rider attached to the policy as a part thereof.

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