Helal v. Fox

Waite, Judge.

This case presents an appeal by appellant, Nationwide Insurance Company, appellee Marianne Helal’s insurer, from the Belmont County Common Pleas Court’s decision to grant summary judgment to appellee. For the following reasons, the decision of the common pleas court is hereby reversed and we herein grant summary judgment to appellant.

On October 18, 1993, appellee was a passenger in her boyfriend’s automobile. In travelling through the town of Adena on Route 250 at an apparently excessive rate of speed, the automobile slid on gravel and rolled over into a ditch, and appellee was…