Case ID: ohio-st-3d_105/html/0318-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hans, Appellant, v. Hartford Insurance Company, Appellee.
    [Cite as Hans v. Hartford Ins. Co., 105 Ohio St.3d 318, 2005-Ohio-1823.]
    (No. 2003-1271
    Submitted March 30, 2005
    Decided May 4, 2005.)
   {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Gilchrist v. Gonsor, 104 Ohio St.3d 599, 2004-Ohio-7103, 821 N.E.2d 154, and the cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings not inconsistent with Gilchrist v. Gonsor, Westfield Ins. Co. v. Galatis, 100 Ohio St.3d 216, 2003-Ohio-5849, 797 N.E.2d 1256, or Hopkins v. Dyer, 104 Ohio St.3d 461, 2004-Ohio-6769, 820 N.E.2d 329.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, Pfeifer, O’Connor and O’Donnell, JJ., concur.

Lundberg Stratton and Lanzinger, JJ., dissent.

Lundberg Stratton, J.,

dissenting.

Butkovich, Schimpf, Schimpf & Ginocchio Co., L.P.A., Laura I. Murphy, and Julie Schimpf Kehres, for appellant.

Thompson Hiñe, L.L.P., Jane E. Garfinkel, and John T. Sunderland, for appellee.

2} For reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Gilchrist v. Gonsor, 104 Ohio St.3d 599, 2004-Ohio-7103, 821 N.E.2d 154, ¶ 14-23, I respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision to reverse this matter.

{¶ 3} However, given that the majority is reversing the judgment of the court of appeals, it is appropriate to remand the cause to the trial court for additional proceedings not inconsistent with Westfield Ins. v. Galatis, 100 Ohio St.3d 216, 2003-Ohio-5849, 797 N.E.2d 1256, and Hopkins v. Dyer, 104 Ohio St.3d 461, 2004-Ohio-6769, 820 N.E.2d 329.

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