Case Name: Newland, Appellant, v. Erie Insurance Company, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1993-12-29
Citations: 68 Ohio St. 3d 98
Docket Number: No. 93-788
Parties: Newland, Appellant, v. Erie Insurance Company, Appellee.
Judges: AW. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 68
Pages: 98–99

Head Matter:
Newland, Appellant, v. Erie Insurance Company, Appellee.
[Cite as Newland v. Erie Ins. Co. (1993), 68 Ohio St.3d 98.]
(No. 93-788
Submitted November 10, 1993
Decided December 29, 1993.)
Williams, Jilek, Lajferty & Gallagher Co., L.P.A., and Robert M. Scott; Dwight D. Brannon & Associates and Dwight D. Brannon, for appellant.
Jenks, Surdyk & Cowdrey Co., L.P.A., and Edward J. Dowd, for appellee.

Opinion:
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 polices and coverages 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 two brothers, but the jurisdictional memoranda received by this court do not reveal whether the brothers 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 separatély.
Wright, J., dissents.