Ins. Co. of N. America v. Mayfield

Full title: INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, APPELLANT, v. MAYFIELD, ADMR., ET AL.…

Court: Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: Jul 1, 1987

31 Ohio St. 3d 160 (Ohio 1987)

509 N.E.2d 944

Opinion

No. 86-1531

Decided July 1, 1987.

Workers' compensation — Surety for insolvent self-insured employer is "employer" within meaning of R.C. 4123.01(B), when — Surety may participate in benefit determination proceedings, when.

CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Franklin County.

Knepper, White, Arter Hadden, Douglas M. Bricker and Judith E. Trail, for appellant.

Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, and Michael L. Squillace, for appellees.

Gallon, Kalniz Iorio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker and William E. Takacs, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Teamsters Union Local 20.

The judgment in this cause, having been certified by the court of appeals in case No. 85AP-546 as being in conflict with Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (October 18, 1985), Lucas App. Nos. L-85-036, L-85-037 and L-85-053, unreported, is hereby reversed on authority of Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St.3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E.2d 938, and the cause is remanded to the trial court.

MOYER, C.J., SWEENEY, HOLMES, WRIGHT and H. BROWN, JJ., concur.

LOCHER and DOUGLAS, JJ., dissent.

LOCHER, J., dissenting.

I respectfully dissent for the reasons expressed in my dissent in Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St.3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E.2d 938.

DOUGLAS, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.