The numbers · filing deadlines

Your deadline is counted from the incident.

Not from the denial, not from the repair quote, not from when you found the paperwork. Phone insurance filing windows run from the day it happened — and they are shorter than most people assume. This page is the table, the counting rule, and the honest note about the cells nobody can verify for you.

The deadline table

PlanWindowApplies toStatus
Verizon Mobile Protect / Wireless Phone Protection (Asurion)90 days from the incidentAll claimsVerified — plan terms
AT&T Protect Advantage (Asurion)60 days from the incidentLoss and theft claimsVerified — AT&T support/terms
AT&T Protect Advantage — damage claimsYour plan documents controlDamage claimsNot pinned in the terms we checked — do not assume 60
T-Mobile Protection 360 (Assurant)Your plan documents controlAll claimsNot verified in our research — we won't invent it

Whatever your window is, the practical rule is identical: file immediately. Every day of delay spends window, ages records, and feeds the timing questions behind "program abuse" flags. The free checker counts your specific days left.

How the count is graded

The clock runs from the incident date you state — which is why the stated date must be the true one and must never drift (a changed date both restarts arguments and creates the discrepancy denial). If you discovered damage later than it occurred, say so in exactly those words on the first call: discovery date and incident date are both recordable, and conflating them silently is how honest claims acquire false timelines.

Related clocks in the same claim

Want your own numbers first? The free checker takes your carrier, your plan, and what happened — and returns your exact deductible, your filing deadline counted in days, your claim-limit status, and the trap checklist for your case. Run the checker →

The working papers for this fight

The pages above are the map. The kit is the paperwork: the trap map, the tables, the decoder, the complaint packs, and the worksheets that keep every number and clock in front of you.

Included in the $39 PhoneClaimDecoded Kit

  • The deadline worksheet: your incident date, your window, your last day — computed and printed
  • The multi-clock tracker: filing window, police-report window, non-return window, defect-report window on one card
  • The misstated-deadline file for claims where the company's own people described the clock wrong
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