Hoffman v. Insurance Co. of North America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claim for breach of fiduciary duty against an insurance agent for failing to procure insurance accrues for purposes of the statute of limitations at the moment the insured is subjected to liability for which it is not covered
• “The statute of limitation[s] begins to run . . . on the date that suit on the claim can first be brought.” (emphasis added)
• “When the question is raised as to whether an action is barred by a statute of limitations, the true test to determine when the cause of action accrued is to ascertain the time when the plaintiff could first have maintained his action to a successful result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).