Ashou v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under Code of Civil Procedure Section 340.9, equitable tolling should “apply—in the context of a previously denied claim—when the insurer has agreed to reopen and reinvestigate the claim”
• holding that, under Code of Civil Procedure Section 340.9, equitable tolling should “apply — in the context of a previously denied claim — when the insurer has agreed to reopen and reinvestigate the claim”
• holding that defendant did not “lull [plaintiff] into a false sense of security regarding the time bar of [the applicable statute of limitations]” because defendant’s letter “expressly stated it would not waive defenses” (emphasis in original)
• explaining five policy considerations behind equitable tolling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).