Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-03-23 13:12:17.599042+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:04.951985
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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as
Bigelow v. Am. Family Ins. Co., Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-1135.]

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                         SLIP OPINION NO. 2016-OHIO-1135
      BIGELOW, APPELLEE, v. AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE COMPANY,
                                      APPELLANT.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
       may be cited as Bigelow v. Am. Family Ins. Co., Slip Opinion No.
                                   2016-Ohio-1135.]
Consumer Sales Practices Act—Application of Act to insurance companies—
        Judgment vacated and cause remanded for application of Dillon v. Farmers
        Ins. of Columbus, Inc.
    (No. 2014-1413—Submitted January 6, 2016—Decided March 23, 2016.)
             APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Coshocton County,
                          No. 2013CA24, 2014-Ohio-2945.
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        {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is vacated, and the cause is
remanded to the court of appeals for application of Dillon v. Farmers Ins. of
Columbus, Inc., ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2015-Ohio-5407, ___ N.E.3d ___.
                            SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

       O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, KENNEDY, and
FRENCH, JJ., concur.
       O’NEILL, J., dissents.
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       Pomerene, Burns & Skelton, and James R. Skelton, for appellee.
       Frost & Maddox Co., L.P.A., and Mark S. Maddox, for appellant.
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