Case Title: Brown v. Wallbrown

Citation: 1998-Ohio-229

Docket Number: 19972212

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

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

Document:
BROWN, ADMR., APPELLANT, v. WALLBROWN; MOTORISTS MUTUAL INSURANCE 
COMPANY, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Brown v. Wallbrown (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Motor vehicles — Insurance — Scope of coverage of an underinsured motorist 
claim — Statutory law in effect at time of entering into contract for 
automobile liability insurance controls the rights and duties of the 
contracting parties. 
(No. 97-2212 — Submitted June 24, 1998 — Decided July 22, 1998.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 96APE12-1633. 
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Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine, Anne M. Valentine, Geoffrey M. 
Wardle and Gerald S. Leeseberg, for appellant. 
 
Keener, Doucher, Curley & Patterson, L.P.A., and W. Charles Curley, for 
appellee. 
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The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Ross v. 
Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, ___ N.E.2d ___. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur. 
 
COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., dissent. 
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Cook, J., dissenting.  For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion to 
Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 291, ___ N.E.2d 
___, ___, I respectfully dissent. 
 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.