SANGAMO WESTON, INC., Plaintiff
v.
NATIONAL SURETY CORPORATION, American Insurance Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, The Travelers Indemnity Company, The Globe Indemnity Company, Certain Lloyd's Underwriters and Companies, American Motorists Insurance Company, Puritan Insurance Company, Prudential Reinsurance Company, and United States Fire Insurance Company, Defendants.
Supreme Court of South Carolina.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Heard November 14, 1990.
Decided January 27, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lemuel Gray Geddie, Jr., and Mary Lou Hill, of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart, Greenville, John E. Heintz and Wendy M. Anderson, of Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.
Stuart M. Andrews, Jr., Stephen G. Morrison, and Richard H. Willis, of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, Lawrence A. Levy and Gary Centola, of Rivkin, Radler, Dunne and Bayh, New York City, for defendants Nat. Sur. Corp., American Ins. Co. and Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.
John B. McLeod, of Haynsworth, Marion, McKay and Guerard, Greenville, and Mary Kay Vyskocil, of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for defendant Travelers Indem. Co.
John E. Johnston, Jr. and Robert A. deHoll, of Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, for defendant Globe Indem. Co.
Mason A. Goldsmith, of Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, Greenville, and George B. Hall, Jr., and Harry S. Redman, of Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., for defendant Certain Lloyd's Underwriters and Companies.
James C. Parham, Jr. and Marshall Winn, of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, Timothy C. Russell, Thomas S. Schaufelberger, and M. Joseph Sterner, of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, D.C., for defendant American Motorist Ins. Co.
Marshall Winn and James C. Parham, Jr., of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, Mitchell L. Lathrop, Kimball Ann Lane, and Kathleen Kenny, of Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, New York City, for defendant Puritan Ins. Co.
Paul J. Foster, Jr., of Foster, Gaddy, Foster & Forston, Greenville, David L. Reiser, Michael R. Gregg, Elizabeth J. Caprini, Suzanne M. Crowley, Steven R. Apel, Jo M. Bonnell, Mary Ann Phillips and Marlene A. Kurilla, of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Prudential Reinsurance Co.
Wilburn Brewer, Jr. and Marcus A. Manos, of Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, Columbia, and Stephen H. Cohen and Wendy S. Greengrove, of McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney, Morristown, N.J., for defendant U.S. Fire Ins. Co.
John E. Johnston, Jr., of Leatherwood, Walker, Todd and Mann, Greenville, for defendant Royal Ins. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Heard Nov. 14, 1990.
Decided Jan. 27, 1992.
TOAL, Justice:
The following questions have been certified to this Court pursuant to Rule 46:
1. What conflict of laws rule would South Carolina's courts apply to ascertain which state's law controls the validity and construction of insurance contracts at issue in this litigation; (a) the rule of lex loci contractus; or (b) the "location of the risk" methodology set forth in Section 193 of...
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