Case Title: Luckenbill v. Midwestern Indemn. Co.

Citation: 2002-Ohio-3524

Docket Number: 20011678

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2002-07-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as Luckenbill v. Midwestern Indemn. Co., 96 Ohio St.3d 1203, 2002-Ohio-3524.] 
 
 
LUCKENBILL ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. MIDWESTERN INDEMNITY COMPANY, 
APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Luckenbill v. Midwestern Indemn. Co., 96 Ohio St.3d 1203, 2002-
Ohio-3524.] 
Certification of conflict dismissed as improvidently certified due to want of a 
conflict. 
(No. 2001-1678 — Submitted June 4, 2002 — Decided July 24, 2002.) 
CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Darke County, No. 01-CA-1536. 
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The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having 
been improvidently certified; there is a want of a conflict. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER and LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
 
COOK, J., dissents. 
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COOK, J., dissenting. 
{¶2} 
I respectfully dissent.  Instead of dismissing this case as 
improvidently certified, I would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. 
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Craig A. Dynes, L.L.C., and Craig A. Dynes, for appellants. 
 
Freund, Freeze & Arnold, L.P.A., and Stephen V. Freeze, for appellee. 
 
Elk & Elk Co., L.P.A., and Todd O. Rosenberg, urging reversal for amicus 
curiae Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers. 
 
Weisman, Goldberg & Weisman Co., L.P.A., and Henry W. Chamberlain, 
urging reversal for amicus curiae Cleveland Academy of Trial Lawyers. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Bricker and Eckler, L.L.P., Kurtis A. Tunnell, Anne Marie Sterra and 
Robert Katz, urging affirmance for amicus curiae American Insurance 
Association. 
 
Thomas P. Pappas, urging affirmance for amicus curiae National 
Association of Independent Insurers. 
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