Brownell Combs, Ii, Administrator C.T.A. Of the Estate of Leslie Combs, Ii, Deceased v. International Insurance Company

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• noting that borrowing statutes are designed to prevent forum shopping and to “reflect respect for state sovereignty”
• holding “legal rights and obligations vest when the last event necessary to create the cause of action occurs.”
• holding “legal rights and obligations vest when the last event necessary to create the cause of action occurs.”
• noting that “there is ample authority for the proposition that the promising party can anticipatorily repudiate a unilateral contract,” arguing that “[t]o limit anticipatory repudiation to bilateral contracts makes little sense,” and compiling cases
• stating “federal courts sitting in a diversity case are in ‘a particularly poor position ... to endorse [a] fundamental policy innovation ....’”
• explaining, in dicta, that financial loss is “ultimately felt at . . . a corporation’s headquarters”

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