Case Name: Yepko, Admr., et al. v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1997-09-24
Citations: 79 Ohio St. 3d 414
Docket Number: No. 96-2625
Parties: Yepko, Admr., et al. v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company.
Judges: Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 79
Pages: 414–415

Head Matter:
Yepko, Admr., et al. v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company.
[Cite as Yepko v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co. (1997), 79 Ohio St.3d 414.]
(No. 96-2625
Submitted May 7, 1997
Decided September 24, 1997.)
Gary, Naegele & Theado and Thomas R. Theado, for petitioner Ellen Jane Yepko, Administrator of the Estate of Anissa Huff, deceased.
Timothy S. Trigilio, for petitioner Ellen Jane Yepko.
Meyers, Hentemann, Schneider & Rea Co., L.P.A., and Henry A. Hentemann, for respondent State Farm Mutual Insurance Company.

Opinion:
The following question has been certified to us by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, pursuant to S.Ct. Prac.R. XVIII:
"Whether a wrongful death claimant who is a statutory beneficiary of an insured decedent can recover under the uninsured motorist provisions of the decedent's insurance policy, either individually or through the administratrix of the decedent's estate, if the claimant is not an insured as defined in the policy."
We answer the certified question in the affirmative on the authority of Holt v. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. (1997), 79 Ohio St.3d 401, 683 N.E.2d 1080, decided today.
Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent for the reasons stated in Justice Cook's dissent in Holt.
Moyer, C.J., dissents.