Insured Failed To Timely Notify Insurer Of Property Damage Claim, Panel Says

(March 3, 2016, 9:05 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — An insured knew by 2008 that at least one insured structure had suffered damage from a neighbor’s negligent construction activities but failed to timely notify the insurer or to file suit within the policy’s two-year contractual limitations provision, a California appeals panel held Feb. 29, affirming summary judgment to the insurer (Anthony N. Kling as Trustee of the Anthony N. Kling Trust of 1997 v. Farmers Insurance Exchange, No. B260738, Calif. App., 2nd Dist., Div. 4; 2016 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1458)....