Kizzen James v. City of Peoria

Summary

The court held that a notice of claim satisfying the statutory requirements is not invalid merely because the claimant states that the settlement offer expires before the statute's sixty-day response period. The claimant's attempted thirty-day limit had no legal effect, while the public entity retained sixty days to respond. The court reversed the trial court's summary judgment and dismissal, vacated the court of appeals' decision, and remanded for further proceedings.