Title: Cincinnati Bar Assn. v. Sullivan

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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OPINIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO                               
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Thomas J. Moyer.                                                                 
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American States Insurance Company, Appellee and                                  
Cross-Appellant, v. Rubin et al., Appellants and                                 
Cross-Appellees; United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company,                      
Appellee and Cross-Appellant; Buckeye Union Insurance Company,                   
Appellee.                                                                        
[Cite as Am. States Ins. Co. v. Rubin (1995),     Ohio St.3d                     
.]                                                                               
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed.                                       
     (No. 94-55 -- Submitted March 21, 1995 -- Decided May 3,                    
1995.)                                                                           
     Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the Court of Appeals for                       
Hamilton County, Nos. C-920511, C-920512, C-920513 and C-920521.                 
                                                                                 
     McIntosh, McIntosh & Knabe and Bruce B. McIntosh, for                       
appellee and cross-appellant American Sttaes Insurance Company.                  
     Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A., D. Arthur                  
Rabourn and Theresa L. Groh, for appellants and cross-appellees                  
Mrs. Howard Rubin and the Estate of Howard Rubin.                                
     McCaslin, Imbus & McCaslin, Thomas J. Gruber and Laura J.                   
Murphy, for appellee and cross-appellant United States Fidelity                  
& Guaranty Company.                                                              
     Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis and Kennth B. Flacks, for                      
appellee Buckeye Union Insurance Company.                                        
                                                                                 
     The appeal and cross-appeal are dismissed, sua sponte, as                   
having been improvidently allowed.                                               
     Moyer, C.J., Wright, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ., concur.                 
     Douglas, J., dissents.                                                      
     Pfeifer, J., dissents and would reverse the judgment of                     
the court of appeals on authority of his concurring opinion in                   
Hillman v. Hastings Mut. Ins. Co. (1994), 68 Ohio St.3d 238,                     
239, 626 N.E.2d 73, 73-74.                                                       
     Cook, J., dissents and would affirm the judgment of the                     
court of appeals.