A court of the Northern District of Texas granted an insurer's motion to dismiss, holding that the policy's contractual limitation period of "two years and one day" does not lengthen the two-year limitations period for extra-contractual tort claims by one day, but does shorten the four-year limitation period for a breach of contract claim, thus requiring dismissal of the insured's extra-contractual claims filed one day after the two-year limitation expired, but permitting that the insured may proceed with its breach of contract claim as suit was filed on the last day of the "two-years-and-one-day" limitations period.
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