International Mobiles Corp. v. Corroon & Black/Fairfield & Ellis, Inc.

Under that line of decisions — the most recent example is Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co., 408 Mass. 204 (1990) — which considers when an action accrues for purposes of applying a statute of limitations, discovery of the wrong and, in negligence cases, the concurrence of some harm trigger the running of the limitations period. We conclude that in the case before us, an action against an insurance agent for failure to place coverage, the statute of limitations did not begin to run on the negligence and G. L. c. 93A counts until the plaintiff suffered harm by reason of settlement of an underlying tort…