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A policyholder's lawyer has asked the Georgia Court of Appeals whether insurance companies should be allowed to forgo updating the statute of limitation periods for claims in their insurance policies if that information is later included in that policy's endorsements.

The crux of plaintiff-appellant's counsel JL King's argument was that this system is confusing for laypeople and was made doubly convoluted as legislation and case law further complicated the rules around statutes of limitations for insurance claims in the mid-aughts and 2010s.

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