Glantzis v. State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co.

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• preventing defendant from relying on the statute of limitations when defendant had accepted a demand for arbitration thereby suspending the statute of limitations under section 95.051(1)(g)
• finding insurer was equitably estopped from relying upon the statute of limitations because of its conduct
• determining insurer equitably estopped from raising statute of limitations defense, when it agreed to appellant's demand to arbitrate, and had helped to pick arbitrators before five-year period for claim proceeding to arbitration ended
• “Having lulled appellants into this false sense of security, no fairminded person could condone abandoning the arbitration and invoking the statute of limitations. That would seem to be ‘gotcha’ practice at its best.”
• \[W]e believe the evidence is such that the doctrine of equitable estoppel applies preventing State Auto from resorting to the statute of limitations as a defense.\
• insurer estopped from asserting statute of limitations defense where its actions lulled insured into forbearing filing of suit

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