Opinion
No. 01-539.
Submitted May 30, 2001.
Decided August 8, 2001.
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Vinton County, No. 00CA541.
Elk Elk Co., L.P.A., and Todd O. Rosenberg, for appellants.
Isaac, Brant, Ledman Teetor, Steven G. LaForge and Barbara Kozar Letcher, for appellee Ohio Farmers Insurance Company.
Mann Preston, L.L.P., and Mark A. Preston, for appellee State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
The discretionary appeal is allowed.
The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded for further proceedings on the authority of Littrell v. Wigglesworth (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 425, 746 N.E.2d 1077, and Clark v. Scarpelli (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 271, 744 N.E.2d 719.
Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Cook, J., concurs in judgment only.
Lundberg Stratton, J., dissents.