Twin City Fire Insurance Company v. Ben Arnold-Sunbelt Beverage Company Of South Carolina, Lp

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• holding that in predicting state law, courts may “consider lower court opinions in South Carolina, the teachings of treatises, and the practices of other states.”
• holding that in predicting state law, courts may “consider lower court opinions in South Carolina, the teachings of treatises, and the practices of other states.”
• instructing that federal courts sitting in diversity are not bound by state trial court opinions
• explaining that insurers, by attempting to defend under a reservation of rights, “adhered to settled principles under South Carolina law regarding their right and duty to defend by providing counsel ... to represent the defendants for all claims filed against them”
• \[A] federal court sitting in diversity is not bound by a state trial court's decision on matters of state law.\
• “[A] federal court sitting in diversity is not bound by a state trial court’s decision on matters of state law.”

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