Jones v. R. S. Jones & Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that Virginia’s choice-of law rule in tort actions remains the law of the place of the wrong
• explaining that the Court would continue to adhere to the lex loci delicti, or place of the wrong, standard that had been “the settled rule in Virginia”
• explaining that in McMillan v. McMillan, 219 Va. 1127, 253 S.E.2d 662 (1979), the Court had declined an invitation to adopt the so-called “most significant relationship” test, recommended by the Restatement (Second
• stating that Virginia's choice-of-law rules provide that the court is to apply the substantive law of the forum where the contract was entered, but that Virginia law applies to matters of procedure and remedy
• stating that Virgin- ia's choice-of-law rules provide that the court is to apply the substantive law of the forum where the contract was entered, but that Virginia law applies to matters of procedure and remedy
• applying substantive law of Florida, the place of the airplane crash

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).