Court Opinion

ID: 9663152
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:29:29.840002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:45.501707
License: Public Domain

WUEST, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent.
As pointed out in the majority opinion, the adjuster contacted Mrs. Sander in June and July of 1983 for the purpose of settlement discussions. Because she was entertaining relatives, she declined to discuss settlement. In March, 1984, with no contact initiated by the Sanders in over a year, the Sander file was closed. The statute of limitations ran in September, 1984. The majority opinion states that the record evinces conduct which a jury could conclude was fraudulent, or was conduct upon which the Sanders reasonably relied to their detriment (equitable estoppel). In my opinion those facts do not exist. I would affirm.
I am hereby authorized to state that Justice MORGAN joins in this dissent.