Richard Moreno v. City of Clarksville

OPINION

Holly Kirby) J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court,

in which Sharon G. Lee, C.J., Cornelia A. Clark, and Jeffrey S. Bivins, JJ., joined.

In this appeal, the claimant seeks to toll the statute of limitations on his claim against a municipality based on two statutes: (1) Tennessee Code Annotated § 20-1 — 119, the 90-day “window” in Tennessee’s comparative fault statute to name a non-party defendant as a comparative tortfea-sor, and (2) Tennessee Code Annotated § 9-8-402(b), the tolling provision in the Tennessee Claims Commission Act that states that the filing of written notice of a claim…