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Akins, Admr., Appellee, v. Harco Insurance Company et al.; Old Republic Insurance Company et al., Appellants.
    [Cite as Akins v. Harco Ins. Co., 106 Ohio St.3d 41, 2005-Ohio-3557.]
    
      (No. 2004-1615
    — Submitted December 14, 2004
    — Decided July 27, 2005.)
    Miraldi & Barrett Co., L.P.A., and David P. Miraldi, for appellee.
    Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A., and Erin Stottlemyer Gold, for appellant Old Republic Insurance Company.
    Manahan, Pietrykowski, DeLaney & Wasielewski and Cormac B. DeLaney, for appellant Owners Insurance Company.
   {¶ 1} The discretionary appeal of Old Republic Insurance Company is accepted on Proposition of Law No. I.

{¶ 2} The discretionary appeal of Owners Insurance Company is not accepted.

{¶ 3} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed insofar as it holds that extrinsic evidence may not be used to establish a valid offer of uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for application of Hollon v. Clary, 104 Ohio St.3d 526, 2004-Ohio-6772, 820 N.E.2d 881.

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

Resnick and Pfeifer, JJ., dissent.

Lanzinger, J., not participating.