Thornton v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• commenting that “courts have . . . enforced . . . contractual periods of limitation, including the one-year limitation in insurance policies”
• holding that a suit under a policy with a provision similar to the one in this case was barred because the limitations period began to run on the date the loss occurred, rather than on the date the insurer’s investigation window expired
• finding that a one-year contractual claims limitation was unambiguous and was triggered from the date of the loss when it required an insured to file suit within a year “after the date of the loss”
• approving insurance contract’s one-year limitation period even though statute of limitation for contract claims was six years
• noting significant distinction in analyzing policy limitation and statutory limitation periods and affirming summary judgment on behalf of insurer based on terms of policy
• applying contractual time-limitation provision to suit over denial of coverage under insurance policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).