MacOmber v. Travelers Property & Casualty Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• applying different choice of law rules to tort and contract claims
• “[T]o state a cause of action, a claim of civil conspiracy must be joined with an allegation of a substantive tort.”
• “[T]here must be an underlying tort for the viability of a civil conspiracy claim . . . .”
• “[w]ithout individual standing to raise a legal claim, a named representative does not have the requisite typicality to raise the same claim on behalf of a class”
• “For the plaintiff's contract claim, we adopt the ‘significant relationship’ test, and presume the application of the law of the state in which the bulk of the transaction took place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).