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BROWN, ADMR., APPELLANT, v. WALLBROWN; MOTORISTS MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, APPELLEE.
[Cite as Brown v. Wallbrown (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Motor vehicles -- Insurance -- Scope of coverage of an underinsured motorist
claim -- Statutory law in effect at time of entering into contract for
automobile liability insurance controls the rights and duties of the
contracting parties.
(No. 97-2212 -- Submitted June 24, 1998 -- Decided July 22, 1998.)
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 96APE12-1633.
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Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine, Anne M. Valentine, Geoffrey M.
Wardle and Gerald S. Leeseberg, for appellant.

Keener, Doucher, Curley & Patterson, L.P.A., and W. Charles Curley, for
appellee.
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The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Ross v.
Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, ___ N.E.2d ___.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur.

COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., dissent.
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Cook, J., dissenting. For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion to
Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 291, ___ N.E.2d
___, ___, I respectfully dissent.

LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.