American States Insurance Company v. Joann LaFlam

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• surveying Rhode Island Supreme Court cases addressing public policy challenges under the Rhode Island Uninsured Motorist Statute
• “The overwhelming majority of jurisdictions that have considered this issue have concluded that the limitations period begins to run on a UIM claim upon the insurer’s breach of the insurance contract rather than the date of the accident.”
• goal of UIM statute to protect insurers from unwarranted claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).