[Cite as Hixson v. Callentine, 107 Ohio St.3d 1208, 2005-Ohio-6508.]

HIXSON, APPELLANT, v. CALLENTINE ET AL.; WESTPORT INSURANCE COMPANY, APPELLEE. [Cite as Hixson v. Callentine, 107 Ohio St.3d 1208, 2005-Ohio-6508.]

Certification of conflict dismissed as improvidently certified due to want of a conflict. (No. 2005-0290 — Submitted October 12, 2005 — Decided December 28, 2005.)

CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Athens County, No. 04CA4, 159 Ohio App.3d 146, 2004-Ohio-5943, 823 N.E.2d 459. __________________ {¶ 1} The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently certified; there is a want of a conflict.

MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR, O’DONNELL and LANZINGER, JJ., concur. __________________ Steven G. Thomakos, L.L.C., and Steven G. Thomakos, for appellant.

Ulmer & Bern, L.L.P., David L. Lester, and David L. Eidelberg; Schindel, Farman & Lipsius, L.L.P., and Laurence J. Rabinovich, for appellee.

Davis & Young and Richard M. Garner, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. ______________________