
    Balatgek, Appellant, v. State Farm Insurance Company, Appellee.
    [Cite as Balatgek v. State Farm Ins. Co. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 384.]
    (No. 97-1516
    Submitted June 24, 1998
    Decided July 22, 1998.)
    
      Michael T. Irwin, for appellant.
    
      Gallagher, Bradigan, Gams, Pryor & Littrell; L.L.P. and James R. Gallagher, for appellee.
   The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 695 N.E.2d 732.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.

Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Cook, J.,

dissenting. For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion to Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 291, 695 N.E.2d 732, 738, I respectfully dissent.

Lundberg Stratton, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.  