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Starks, Appellee, v. Federal Insurance Company et al., Appellants.
    [Cite as Starks v. Fed. Ins. Co., 102 Ohio St.3d 91, 2004-Ohio-1998.]
    (No. 2003-1742
    Submitted March 15, 2004
    Decided May 5, 2004.)
    John S. Coury, for appellee.
    Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Jay Clinton Rice and Richard C.O. Rezie, for appellant Federal Insurance Company.
   {¶ 1} The discretionary appeal is accepted.

{¶ 2} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the trial court on the authority of Westfield Ins. Co. v. Galatis, 100 Ohio St.3d 216, 2003-Ohio-5849, 797 N.E.2d 1256.

Moyer, C.J., Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor and O’Donnell, JJ., concur.

Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., dissent.

Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Thomas L. Rosenberg and Carl A. Anthony, for appellant Regent Insurance Company.