Lambert v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Although the statutory period commences upon refusal to 9 defend, it is equitably tolled until the underlying action is terminated by final judgment.”
• “California courts have long given the ‘plaintiff, in cases where a continuing duty has been breached, the option of filing suit when the time for complete performance has passed.’” (citation omitted)
• “the limitation period for an action under a[n] . . . insurance policy for failure to defend accrues when the insurer refuses the insured’s tender of defense, but is tolled until the underlying action is terminated by final judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).