Case ID: ohio-st-3d_92/html/0216-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Doganiero et al., Appellants, v. Insurance Company of Ohio et al., Appellees.
    [Cite as Doganiero v. Ins. Co. of Ohio (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 216.]
    (No. 01-159
    Submitted May 16, 2001
    Decided July 5, 2001.)
   The question certified for our consideration is “whether R.C. 3937.18[A][2] precludes recovery of underinsured motorist insurance benefits where the insured’s underinsured motorist coverage limits are less than or equal to the tortfeasor’s liability coverage limits but the presence of other claimants prevents the insured from recovering any part of the tortfeasor’s coverage.”

Schulman, Schulman & Meros and Howard A. Schulman, for appellants.

Pursuant to our decisions in 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 certified question is answered in the negative. The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Littrell and Clark, and 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.