Legal Opinion
Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Hunt
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided July 21, 1997No. 24644PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TOAL, Justice:
The primary issue in this insurance contract dispute is Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s (“Insurance Company”) appeal of the directed verdict in favor of First Citizens Bank (“Mortgagee”) on the issue of breach of contract. We affirm.
Factual/Procedural Background
In March 1992, Robbin T. Hunt (“Hunt”) obtained a $7,000 loan from Mortgagee. This was a third mortgage on Hunt’s property. In early February 1993, she obtained another loan from Mortgagee; this one was for $5,000. Later in the same month, Hunt was issued a policy of fire insurance on her house by Insurance Company.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Foremost Insurance v. Allstate InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1992
- SSI Medical Services, Inc. v. CoxSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1990
- Ingersoll-Rand Financial Corp. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau, a Mutual Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Walker v. Queen Insurance Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1926
- AETNA LIFE & CASUALTY COMPANY v. Charles S. Martin Distributing Company, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1969
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- American Credit of Sumter, Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2008
- Home Savings of America v. Continental InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2001
- South Carolina Property & Casualty Insurance v. BrockSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2014
- Barwick v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Ins. Co.Ohio Court of Appeals · 2011
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