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  HILLYER ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY,
                                        APPELLEE.
              [Cite as Hillyer v. Great Am. Ins. Co., 

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Motor vehicles—Insurance—Applicability of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos.
        to claim for damages against tortfeasor’s automobile liability insurance
        policy to be briefed.
        (No. 97-2200—Submitted June 24, 1998—Decided July 22, 1998.)
        APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lake County, No. 96-L-148.
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        Friedman, Domiano & Smith Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey H. Friedman, for
appellants.
        Ulmer & Berne LLP, Murray K. Lenson and Jeffrey R. Sadlowski, for
appellee.
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        {¶ 1} The parties are ordered to consider and brief the issue whether the
underlying premise of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 

, ___ N.E.2d ___, that the statutory law in effect at the time of entering into a
contract of automobile liability insurance controls the rights and duties of the
contracting parties, is applicable to a claim for damages against the tortfeasor’s
automobile liability insurance policy.
        MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.
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