Rogers v. City of Dayton

{¶ 1} This is a dispute between the city of Dayton, appellee, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”), appellant. We must decide which party is primarily liable for the alleged negligence of a city of Dayton employee who, while driving a city vehicle, apparently caused an accident that injured the plaintiff. To answer this question, we must interpret former R.C. 3937.18(E)(3), 148 Ohio Laws, Part V, 11380, 11383-11384, which excluded a motor vehicle “self-insured within the meaning of the financial responsibility law of the state” from being “uninsured” or…