Lee v. Saliga

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the physical contact requirement is a contract question as opposed to a liability question for conflicts of law purposes
• concluding that another state's law should apply to interpret an insurance contract where West Virginia's \only connection to the dispute is the fortuity that the accident occurred there\
• concluding that another state’s law should apply to interpret an insurance contract where West Virginia’s “only connection to the dispute is the fortuity that the accident occurred there”
• noting that UM cases involve both contract and tort law, but that where question “involves an aspect of policy coverage, rather than liability, it is treated as a contract question for purposes of conflicts analysis”
• analyzing tort and contract law issues in insurance coverage dispute as contracts issue for purpose of conflict analysis
• utilizing Second Restatement approach and holding Pennsylvania law applicable in construing insurance policy because Pennsylvania possessed most significant relationship to transaction and parties

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