Hines v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an insurer- defendant who made a payment on a claim for which insured submitted an untimely proof of loss, “conceded that it was estopped by its conduct to assert the policy period of limitations” on the claim
• stating that the “filing of information with an insurance company 9 [may] constitute a proof of loss and . . . start the tolling period,” but only “if the policy does not require a particular form of proof of loss”
• \trial court's findings in a bench trial will not be disturbed unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. A judgment is against the manifest weight of the evidence *** when findings [are] unreasonable\
• “trial court’s findings in a bench trial will not be disturbed unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. A judgment is against the manifest weight of the evidence *** when findings [are] unreasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).