[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 87 Ohio St.3d 1227.]

SAMMARCO ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC. ET AL., APPELLEES.

[Cite as Sammarco v. Anthem Ins. Cos., Inc., 1999-Ohio-63.]

Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. (No. 98-2718–Submitted November 2, 1999–Decided December 8, 1999.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-971074. __________________ Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A., Stanley M. Chesley and Janet G. Abaray, for appellants.

Thompson, Hine & Flory, L.L.P., Earl Jay Maiman and Robert P. Johnson, for appellees. __________________ {¶ 1} The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

MOYER, C.J., PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.

DOUGLAS and RESNICK, JJ., dissent.

F.E. SWEENEY, J., dissents and would reverse. __________________