Rivers v. American Commerce Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the accident victim could not successfully file a complaint against the liability insurer when she was barred from serving the tort-feasor due to the statute of limitations
• “The reasoning in the case invoked by defendant, Luft, remains sound and we see no reason to depart from it.”
• “this Court has recognized * * * [tolling provisions for minors and other disabilities] * * * are based on clearly defined public policy and equity concerns”
• “It is generally recognized that ‘a cause of action accrues and the applicable statute of limitations begins to run at the time of the injury to the aggrieved party.’” (quoting Martin v. Howard, 784 A.2d 291, 299 (R.I. 2001))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).