Bakos v. Insura Property & Casualty Insurance

BAKOS, APPELLEE, v. INSURA PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL., APPELLANTS. [Cite as Bakos v. Insura Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] Certification of conflict dismissed for want of conflict within meaning of S.Ct.Prac.R. IV(2)(B). (No. 97-2431 — Submitted October 28, 1998 — Decided December 30, 1998.) CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 71949. __________________ Peterson & Zelasko and Bradford D. Zelasko, for appellee. McNeal, Schick, Archibald & Biro Co., L.P.A., and Paul W. Ziegler, for appellant Insura Property & Casualty Insurance Company. Weston Hurd Fallon Paisley & Howley L.L.P., John G. Farnan, Hilary S. Taylor and William H. Baughman, Jr., for appellant St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company. __________________ The cause is dismissed for want of conflict within the meaning of S.Ct.Prac.R. IV(2)(B). MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER AND LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., CONCUR. COOK, J., dissents. __________________ COOK, J., dissenting. I respectfully dissent from the decision to dismiss this case as improvidently certified and, if addressing this case on the merits, would affirm the decision of the court of appeals.