THE MAYERSON FIRM PLLC

An artist-photographer named Thomas Condon made the Cincinnati morgue his studio. His photographs of corpses, taken without the permission of the next of kin, led to civil and criminal proceedings. And, inevitably, an insurance case. The principal theory of coverage was for “personal injury”. Condon’s carrier provided him a defense to the civil proceedings while filing suit for a declaration of no coverage. The opinion reads as though the Ohio court of appeals was as offended