D.D. v. University of Medicine & Dentistry

The New Jersey Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to :12 — 3, is the statutory mechanism through which our Legislature effected a waiver of sovereign immunity. That waiver is not unlimited, but is bound by the Legislature’s declaration of purpose, see N.J.S.A. 59:1-2, and enforced through the application of numerous express limitations embodied in the statute’s provisions. Although the legislative declaration observes that part of the purpose for enacting the statute was to address the harsh consequences of strictly *134applying the common law contours of sovereign immunity, ibid., we have…