United States Eleventh Circuit

Breach of the enhanced duty of good faith sounds in contract under Alabama law, and Alabama applies the doctrine of lex loci contractus. Plaintiff's breach of good faith claim, regarding insurance contracts made in South Carolina, must therefore be decided under South Carolina law; the fact that under South Carolina law such claims sound in tort does not warrant dismissal of the case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2004
• Published 02/05/2004

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BLACK and HILL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Ross Forman, III,Robert S. Given, Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael S. Jackson, Beers, Anderson, Jackson & Smith, P.C., Judy B. Van Heest, Montgomery, AL, James Stanley Witcher, III, Gladden & Sinor, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.