Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance v. Okonkwo

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• the insured was aware that the insurer disputed the claim and contended that the insured had made misrepresentations which voided the policy four months before the suit limitation period expired
• “[M]erely negotiating for a possible settlement of a disputed claim which is unsuccessfully accomplished is not conduct designed to lull the claimant into a false sense of security and does not preclude an assertion of the contractual one-year provision by the insurer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).