Charleston County School District v. State Budget & Control Board

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• noting that statutory provisions relating to insurance contracts have long been held by this Court to be part of these contracts
• noting that statutory provisions relating to insurance contracts have long been held by this Court to be part of these contracts
• finding that an allegation of negligence related to the insurer’s obligations under the policy, “standing alone[,] is not an independent source of liability”
• confirming that bad faith is a tort action and overruling previous cases that suggested otherwise
• insured allowed to recover for insurer's bad faith refusal to pay a third party claim
• “The cardinal rale of statutory construction is to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).