Long-Term Disability Claim Was Properly Denied As Time-Barred, Judge Rules

Mealey's (February 23, 2018, 11:20 AM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — Dismissal of an insured’s insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit is necessary because her claims were not brought within the applicable statute of limitations and she has failed to show that the limitations period was tolled by the discovery rule, a federal judge in California ruled Feb. 20 in granting an insurer’s motion to dismiss (Laurel Davis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, No. 17-0738, S.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27045)....