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· 10/18/2012

Country Preferred Insurance Company v. Whitehead

Citations

  • 2012 IL 113365
  • 979 N.E.2d 35
  • 365 Ill. Dec. 669
  • 2012 WL 4951110
  • 2012 Ill. LEXIS 1503

How courts have described this case

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  • holding a two-year limitations period replacing the ten-year statute of limitations was reasonable for an uninsured-motorist claim
  • “[T]he power to declare a private contract invalid on public policy grounds is exercised sparingly.”
  • “The parties to a contract may agree to a shortened contractual limitation period to replace a statute of limitations, so long as it is reasonable.”
  • “One year . . . is not an unreasonably short time for bringing a suit.”

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