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Tolling Provision Appeals to NY Personal Injury Action
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2006, page 36
The New York Court Of Appeals held that the year-and-90-day period contained in General Municipal Law § 50-; is a statute of limitations (to which the tolling provision of CPLR § 205[a] applies) rather than a condition precedent to suit.On December 17, 1997, New York City Department of Corrections ...
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