Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Ohio Department of Insurance

On November 30, 1978, appellants filed a formal application for a hearing and other relief with the Ohio Department of Insurance, pursuant to R.C. 3901.22, claiming that four insurance companies had published blatantly untrue, deceptive and misleading advertisements. On March 28, 1979, the Department of Insurance responded with a letter to appellants’ counsel deeming “the need for the requested hearing * * * moot.” Today, this court deems appellants’ appeal from that finding not a final order of the Department of Insurance because the letter was signed by an attorney-examiner, not the…