evidence_text: Rep. Whitsett moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 51, following line 28, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 3145. (1) An action for recovery of personal protection insurance benefits payable under this chapter for accidental bodily injury may not be commenced later than 1 year after the date of the accident causing the injury unless written notice of injury as provided herein has been given to the insurer within 1 year after the accident or unless the insurer has previously made a payment of personal protection insurance benefits for the injury. If Subject to subsection (2), if the notice has been given or a payment has been made, the action may be commenced at any time within 1 year after the most recent allowable expense, work loss, or survivor’s loss has been incurred. However, the claimant may not recover benefits for any portion of the loss incurred more than 1 year before the date on which the action was commenced. The notice of injury required by this subsection may be given to the insurer or any of its authorized agents by a person claiming to be entitled to benefits therefor because of the injury , or by someone in his the person’s behalf . The notice shall must give the name and address of the claimant and indicate in ordinary language the name of the person injured and the time, place, and nature of his the person’s injury.
  
  (2) The limitation under subsection (1) on recovery of benefits incurred more than 1 year before an action is commenced is tolled from the date the person claiming the benefits makes a specific claim for the benefits until the date the insurer formally denies the claim. This subsection does not apply if the person claiming the benefits fails to pursue the claim with reasonable diligence.
  
  (3) (2) An action for recovery of property protection insurance benefits shall may not be commenced later than 1 year after the accident.”.
  
  The motion prevailed and the amendment was adopted, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.