Case Title: Hillyer v. Great Am. Ins. Co.

Citation: 1998-Ohio-478

Docket Number: 

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1998-07-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
HILLYER ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, 
APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Hillyer v. Great Am. Ins. Co. (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Motor vehicles — Insurance — Applicability of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of 
Cos. to claim for damages against tortfeasor’s automobile liability 
insurance policy to be briefed. 
(No. 97-2200 — Submitted June 24, 1998 — Decided July 22, 1998.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lake County, No. 96-L-148. 
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Friedman, Domiano & Smith Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey H. Friedman, for 
appellants. 
 
Ulmer & Berne LLP, Murray K. Lenson and Jeffrey R. Sadlowski, for 
appellee. 
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The parties are ordered to consider and brief the issue whether the 
underlying premise of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 
281, ___ N.E.2d ___, that the statutory law in effect at the time of entering into a 
contract of automobile liability insurance controls the rights and duties of the 
contracting parties, is applicable to a claim for damages against the tortfeasor’s 
automobile liability insurance policy. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.