Standard provision No. 12—Legal actions.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 134 S. Ct. 604 - Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co. (2013)
Most recently applied in 608 F. App'x 487 - Cheryl Ward v. Stonebridge Life Insurance Co (June 2015)
1951 c 229 s 15
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
There shall be a provision as follows:
LEGAL ACTIONS: No action at law or in equity shall be brought to recover on this policy prior to the expiration of sixty days after written proof of loss has been furnished in accordance with the requirements of this policy. No such action shall be brought after the expiration of three years after the time written proof of loss is required to be furnished.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.