Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce v. Ghanbar

Hildebrandt, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, George Ghanbar, appeals from the summary judgment entered by the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in favor of defendant-appellee, Progressive Insurance Company, in a declaratory-judgment action filed by plaintiff, Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce (the “Chamber”). For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

{¶ 2} At the 1999 Oktoberfest celebration in downtown Cincinnati, Michael Cowperthwaite drank an excessive amount of alcohol. After leaving Oktoberfest, he drove his automobile through the barricades…