Faeth v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

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• holding that the contractual period of limitations was invalid as applied because it was unreasonable, and imposing Iowa’s statutory ten-year period of limitations for contracts by default
• finding a two-year limitations period unreasonable where the provision left the insured no time to file suit after the claim accrued
• [W]e consider the objects sought to be accomplished and the evils and mischief sought to be remedied and seek a result that will advance rather than defeat the statute’s purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).