HARTFORD FIRE INS. v. LAWRENCE, DYKES, GOODENBERGER

Nos. 82-3404, 82-3419.

740 F.2d 1362 (1984)

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. LAWRENCE, DYKES, GOODENBERGER, BOWER & CLANCY, Defendant, Cross-Appellee, Gensert Bretnall Bobel, Inc., A.A. Knoch & Sons, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellees, Schneider Lumber Co., Third-Party Plaintiff, Defendant, Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin L. Karp (argued), Bruce D. Celebrezze, Ulmer, Berne, Laronge, Glickman & Curtis, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee.

Fredric E. Kramer, Cleveland, Ohio, Robert F. Hesser, Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas L. McDonald, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants-appellees, cross-appellees.

Thomas P. Curran, John J. Horrigan, Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley & Howley, Cleveland, Ohio, for third-party plaintiff, defendant, cross-appellant.

Frank Bolmeyer, Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, James G. Gowan, (Lead Counsel) Joseph W. Pappalardo (argued) Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant, cross-appellee.

Before: KENNEDY and JONES, Circuit Judges, and CHURCHILL, District Judge.


CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant challenges the constitutionality of Ohio's "no-action" statute for designers and builders of improvements to property, Ohio Rev.Code § 2305.131, and its application to damages suffered by the improvement itself. We affirm the holdings of the court below that the statute applies to the facts of this case and that the statute is constitutional.

The facts before us are not in dispute. The Hartford Fire Insurance...

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