Carroll v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co.

Full title: Carroll, Appellant, v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellee

Court: Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: Jul 5, 2001

749 N.E.2d 293 (Ohio 2001)

749 N.E.2d 293

Opinion

No. 01-83.

Submitted May 16, 2001.

Decided July 5, 2001.

Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Holmes County, No. 99CA016.

Scanlon Gearinger Co., L.P.A., Robert A. Royer and Joy D. Malek, for appellant.

Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley Howley L.L.P., Timothy D. Johnson, Gregory E. O'Brien and Shawn W. Maestle, for appellee.

The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed 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.

The cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with our decisions in Littrell and Clark.

Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.

Moyer, C.J., Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Cook, J., dissenting.

I respectfully dissent based on the reasoning set forth in my dissenting opinion in Littrell v. Wigglesworth (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 425, 746 N.E.2d 1077, and in my opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in Clark v. Scarpelli (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 271, 744 N.E.2d 719.

Moyer, C.J., and Lundberg Stratton, J., concur in the foregoing dissenting opinion.