Robinson Helicopter Co‪.‬

Under Code of Civil Procedure section 340.9 certain victims of the Northridge earthquake whose insurance claims would otherwise have been barred by the limitations period in Insurance Code section 2071 received an additional one-year period from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001 in which to file a claim or commence an action on the policy. The issue before us is whether, with the expiration of this additional one-year period, the filing window is now permanently closed to all victims of the Northridge quake or whether insurers may be equitably estopped from asserting the bar of the limitations period.