Ohio Casualty Insurance Co. v. Todd

The court announces today that its recent Brigance1 teaching shall not be extended to benefit an adult buyer of liquor who injures himself while voluntarily intoxicated. While I join in the court’s pronouncement, I am writing separately to explain my own rationale for refusing to recognize an actionable claim against the drink’s supplier by a sui juris consumer who voluntarily and knowingly ingests alcohol. Because in my view the question before us is broader than that answered by the court’s opinion,2 my concurrence today is not to be understood as a vote to deny actionability to claims…