[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 90 Ohio St.3d 1231.]

SHEALY, APPELLANT, v. PHILLIPS ET AL., APPELLEES. [Cite as Shealy v. Phillips, 2000-Ohio-176.] Certification of conflict dismissed as improvidently certified due to want of a conflict. (No. 99-2186—Submitted October 18, 2000 at the Fairfield County Session— Decided December 13, 2000.) CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Crawford County, No. 3-95-15. __________________ Timothy A. Shimko & Associates and Timothy A. Shimko, for appellant. Sauter, Hohenberger & Beddow and Kenneth R. Beddow, for appellee Mark Phillips. Kennedy, Purdy, Hoeffel, Gernert, Leuthold & Leuthold and Paul E. Hoeffel, for appellee Allstate Insurance Company. __________________ {¶ 1} The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently certified; there is want of a conflict. S.Ct.Prac.R. IV(2)(B); Whitelock v. Gilbane Bldg. Co. (1993), 66 Ohio St.3d 594, 613 N.E.2d 1032. MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, SLABY, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. LYNN C. SLABY, J., of the Ninth Appellate District, sitting for PFEIFER, J. __________________