
    Michael, Successor Admr., Appellant, v. Reliance National Insurance Company, Appellee.
    [Cite as Michael v. Reliance Natl. Ins. Co. (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 1262.]
    (No. 00-1323
    Submitted March 28, 2001
    Decided May 16, 2001.)
    
      Lamkin, Van Eman, Trimble, Beals & Rourke and Michael J. Rourke, for appellant.
    
      Wiles, Boyle, Burkholder & Bringardner Co., L.P.A., Jay B. Eggspuehler and Samuel M. Pipino, for appellee.
    
      Elk & Elk Co., L.P.A., and Todd O. Rosenberg, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
   The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Moyer, C.J., and Cook, J., dissent.

Cook, J.,

dissenting. Because I would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals, I respectfully dissent.

Moyer, C.J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.  