Case Name: Merriman, Appellant, v. State Farm Insurance Company, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1993-12-29
Citations: 68 Ohio St. 3d 94
Docket Number: No. 93-330
Parties: Merriman, Appellant, v. State Farm Insurance Company, Appellee.
Judges: AW.- Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 68
Pages: 94–95

Head Matter:
Merriman, Appellant, v. State Farm Insurance Company, Appellee.
[Cite as Merriman v. State Farm Ins. Co. (1993), 68 Ohio St.3d 94.]
(No. 93-330
Submitted November 10, 1993
Decided December 29, 1993.)
William H. Allyn, Jr., for appellant.
Fosson, Mann &'Preston and John L. Fosson, for appellee.

Opinion:
Appellant's motion to certify the record is allowed. All issues in this case were decided by this court's recent case of Savoie v. Grange Mut. Ins. Co. (1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 500, 620 N.E.2d 809. "Insurers may contractually preclude intrafamily stacking — the stacking of uninsured/underinsured limits of policies and cover ages purchased by family members in the same household. " Savoie, supra, paragraph two of syllabus.
Because this case involves the stacking of two insurance policies owned by a husband and -wife, but the jurisdictional memoranda received by this court do not reveal whether the couple lived in the same household, we remand the cause to the trial court to obtain the information from the. parties which is necessary to properly apply the intrafamily/interfamily stacking test announced in Savoie, supra, and to apply Savoie.
AW.- Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Moyer, C.J., concurs separately.
Wright, J., concurs in part and dissents in part.