Bowler v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of NY

How courts have described this case

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• estopping defendant from pleading limitations clause as defense where insurer failed to pay benefits that were clearly due
• courts give insured benefit “of any construction .. . which can be said fairly to represent the protection extended to him”
• courts give insured benefit \of any construction ... which can be said fairly to represent the protection extended to him\
• Courts give the insured the benefit of any construction which can be said fairly to represent the protection extended
• \It is fundamental... that courts will interpret insurance policy language liberally in favor of the insured.\
• fact that insurer reasonably could foresee insured’s reliance on insurer to take action triggered a duty by insurer to reject affirmatively claim before insurer could claim statute of limitations defense; insurer had failed to exercise good faith by its silence and inaction on claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).