Case ID: ohio-st-3d_89/html/0110-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Douglas, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Leisure, Admr., et al., Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company; Farmers Insurance of Columbus, Inc., Appellee and Cross-Appellant. Leisure, Admr., et al., Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, et al.
    [Cite as Leisure v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (2000), 89 Ohio St.3d 110.]
    (Nos. 98-2110 and 98-2481
    Submitted February 23, 2000
    Decided June 7, 2000.)
    
      The Okey Law Firm, L.P.A., Steven P. Okey and Scott A Washam, for appellants and cross-appellees.
    
      Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, D. John Travis and Gary L. Nicholson, for appellee and cross-appellant Farmers Insurance of Columbus, Inc.
    
      Davis & Young and Henry A. Hentemann, for appellee and cross-appellant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Sharon A Jennings, Assistant Attorney General, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Attorney General', in . case No. 98-2110.
   The court hereby, sua sponte, consolidates these two cases for disposition.

The judgments of the court of appeals are affirmed to the extent they vacated the default judgments. The causes are remanded to the trial court with instructions to permit plaintiffs to serve the Attorney General in accordance with R.C. 2721.12 and Cicco v. Stockmaster (2000), 89 Ohio St.3d 95, 728 N.E.2d 1066.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Douglas, J., concurs in judgment.

Pfeifer and Cook, JJ., dissent.

Douglas, J.,

concurring in judgment only. While I agree with the ultimate •resolution, I do not subscribe to the majority’s reliance on Cicco v. Stockmaster (2000), 89 Ohio St.3d 95, 728 N.E.2d 1066, in disposing of this matter. I believe that Cicco was not properly decided and, accordingly, I continue to adhere to my dissent therein.