Court Opinion

ID: 9600749
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:30:56.572111+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:35:12.729809
License: Public Domain

Judge TAUBMAN
specially concurring.
Because I believe it is unnecessary to reach the issues addressed by the majority, I concur in the result only. Under § 13-80-108(1), C.R.S. (1987 Repl.Vol. 6A), a cause of action accrues on the date on which both the *263injury and its cause are known or should have been known through the exercise of reasonable diligence. Here, plaintiffs workers’ compensation attorney sent a letter to the insurer on October 19, 1987, asserting that the insurer was acting in bad faith concerning its handling of plaintiffs workers’ compensation claim. Thus, in my view, the cause of action here accrued on that date, and therefore, a complaint had to be filed on or about October 20,1989. Since here it was not even filed until June 4, 1990, it was barred. Accordingly, I find it unnecessary to address the issues discussed by the majority.