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HAMILTON INS. SERV., INC. v. NATIONWIDE INS. COS.

No. 98-405.

86 Ohio St.3d 270 (1999)

HAMILTON INSURANCE SERVICES, INC. ET AL., APPELLEES, v. NATIONWIDE INSURANCE COMPANIES, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Inscore, Rinehardt, Whitney & Enderle and Larry L. Inscore, for appellees.

Arter & Hadden, L.L.P., and Irene C. Keyse-Walker; Lutz & Oxley and Fred M. Oxley, for appellant.

Kerger & Kerger, Richard M. Kerger and Jessica C. Kerger, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Nationwide Insurance Independent Contractors Association.

Spater, Gittes, Schulte & Kolman, Frederick M. Gittes and Kathaleen B. Schulte, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, Ohio Chapter of the National Association of State Farm Agents, and Cincinnati Employment Lawyers Association.

Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt, Larry H. James and Amy Fulmer Stevenson, urging reversal for amici curiae, Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

Submitted April 21, 1999 at the Hardin County and Ohio Northern University Law School Session.

MOYER, C.J.

The principal issue in this case is whether the Corporate Agency Agreement, which governed the relationship between Nationwide and Hamilton at the time of Nationwide's termination of the relationship, was clear and unambiguous, thus allowing Nationwide to terminate the agreement with or without cause. The trial court and the court of appeals...

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