( June 15, 2026, 10:27 AM EDT) -- FLORENCE, S.C. — A breach of contract claim alleged against a life insurer must be dismissed based on the insurer’s payment of an accidental death benefit, made after the beneficiary filed suit; however, the bad faith claim is not subject to dismissal because the claim is not mooted by the insurer’s payment, a South Carolina federal judge said in partially granting the insurer’s supplemental motion to dismiss....