WEDGE PRODUCTS INC. v. HARTFORD EQUITY SALES CO.

No. 86-370.

31 Ohio St. 3d 65 (1987)

WEDGE PRODUCTS, INC., APPELLEE, v. HARTFORD EQUITY SALES COMPANY, D.B.A. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petro, Rademaker, Matty & McClelland, Robert C. McClelland and Anne M. Wilhelm, for appellee.

McNeal, Schick, Archibald & Biro, Thomas Schick, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff and John E. Martindale, for appellant.

Byron & Cantor Co., L.P.A., David E. Cruikshank and Barry M. Byron, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Ohio Municipal League et al.


HERBERT R. BROWN, J.

The threshold issue presented by this appeal is whether Hartford's insurance policy provides coverage for the claims asserted against Wedge by its employees. For the reasons that follow, we find that there is no coverage.

In Blankenship v. Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals (1982), 69 Ohio St.2d 608, 23 O.O.3d 504, 433 N.E.2d 572, we held that neither the Ohio Constitution nor the workers...

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