CONTRACT LIMITATION ON LAWSUITS HELD "UNCONSCIONABLE."

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In Tadych v. Noble Ridge Constr., Inc., 519 P.3d 199, ¶ 18, at p. 204 (Wash. 2022), a split en banc decision, the Washington Supreme Court held that a short, one year, limitation period in a construction contract was "unconscionable" and therefore unenforceable.

This decision has implications for similar short, sometimes one year, limitations periods in insurance contracts.

Let the issuer beware.

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