Shaw v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Delaware decisions follow the general principle that contractual limitation of actions periods are valid if they are reasonable.”
• “Two parties contracting between themselves cannot agree to circumvent the [statute of limitations] as mandated by the legislature in its attempt to protect the public interests.”
• “Two parties contracting between themselves cannot agree to circumvent the [statute of limitations] as mandated by the legislature in its attempt to protect the public interests.”
• enforcing 18-month contractual limitation period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).