Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

Plaintiff provided Defendant timely notice of his claim with regard to the Schering suit. State Sec. Ins., 145 Ill.2d at 431, 583 N.E.2d at 551, 164 Ill.Dec. at 635. Plaintiff argues that he did provide timely notice to Defendant. Plaintiff asserts that he immediately contacted Defendant's agent, James Markwell, upon learning that Scher-ing had filed a petition for a rule to show cause with Judge Hart. Moreover, based upon his prior dealings with Markwell, Plaintiff claims that he did not believe that a written notice of his claim was necessary. However, the Court cannot say that Plaintiff timely notified Defendant of the "occurrence." First, it is highly questionable whether Markwell was Defendant's agent, .App.3d 232, 237, 456 N.E.2d 348, 352, 74 Ill.Dec. 846, 850 (1983) (<HOLDING>); see also Illinois Valley Minerals Corp. v.
Holding statements: (A) holding that a one month delay is acceptable (B) holding that a six month delay was unreasonable (C) holding that a 14 month delay was unreasonable (D) holding that a 13 month delay was unreasonable (E) holding that a five month delay was unreasonable
(E)