What is the applicable statute of limitations for an action brought by a defendant who conceals a cause of action?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Eghtesadi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Case No. 3:12-cv-1978-GPC-JMA (S.D. Cal. 2013):
their right of action through no fault of their own." Id.; see also Bernson v. Browning-Ferris Indus., 7 Cal. 4th 926, 931-32 (1994) ("It has long been established that the defendant's fraud in concealing a cause of action against him tolls the applicable statute of limitations, but only for that period during which the claim is undiscovered by plaintiff or until such time as plaintiff, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, should have discovered it.")
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