Ohio Supreme Court, 1997

Yepko v. State Farm Mutual Insurance

Ohio Supreme Court · Decided September 24, 1997 · Cook, Douglas, Holt, Moyer, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stated, Stratton, Sweeney

79 Ohio St. 3d 414; 683 N.E.2d 1090

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

Yepko v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (District Court, N.D. Ohio 1998)
Yepko v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co. (Ohio 1997)

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Opinion of the Court

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 *415decedent’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.

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