Klaus v. United Equity Inc

• Decision Date: 23 March 2010
• Docket Number: No. 2008-0894.,2008-0894.
• Parties: KLAUS, Appellee,v.UNITED EQUITY, INC., Appellant.
• Court: Ohio Supreme Court

125 Ohio St.3d 279
927 N.E.2d 1092
2010 Ohio 1014

KLAUS, Appellee,
v.
UNITED EQUITY, INC., Appellant.

No. 2008-0894.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Submitted Feb. 18, 2009.
Decided March 23, 2010.

Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Allen County, No. 1-07-63, 2008-Ohio-1344.
Rumer & Maisch Co., L.L.C., Victoria U. Maisch, and Michael A. Rumer, for appellee.

Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Brian N. Ramm, and Elizabeth A. Harvey, Cleveland; and Borgstahl & Zychowicz, Ltd., and Michael J. Zychowicz, Toledo, for appellant.

{¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals to apply Kaminski v. Metal & Wire Prods. Co., 125 Ohio St.3d 250, 2010-Ohio-1027, 927 N.E.2d 1066, and Stetter v. R.J. Corman Derailment Servs., L.L.C., 125 Ohio St.3d 280, 2010-Ohio-1029, 927 N.E.2d 1092.

MOYER, C.J., and LUNDBERG STRATTON, O'CONNOR, O'DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur.
PFEIFER, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinions in Kaminski v. Metal & Wire Prods. Co. and Stetter v. R.J. Corman Derailment Servs., L.L.C.