Legal Opinion
Keystone Insurance Company v. Houghton, Joseph, Houghton, Donna Livoy, Cassidy, John, Cassidy, Kathleen, Livoy, Frank
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 15, 1988No. 88-1405PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
We are presented in this civil RICO action with the facial issue of whether Keystone Insurance Company’s cause of action against their insureds who filed fraudulent claims is barred by the civil RICO four year statute of limitations. We must perforce address the complex threshold problem of when a civil RICO cause of action accrues, an issue which the Supreme Court reserved in Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc., 483 U.S. 143, 107 S.Ct. 2759, 2767, 97 L.Ed.2d 121 (1987).
The rule which we announce provides that the limitations…
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