Weaver v. State

*879Court of Claims Act § 11 (b) provides that a claim filed in the Court of Claims “shall state the time when and place where such claim arose, the nature of same, the items of damage or injuries claimed to have been sustained and, except in an action to recover damages for personal injury, medical, dental or podiatric malpractice or wrongful death, the total sum claimed.”

The main issue presented on this appeal is whether, in a class action brought in the Court of Claims, each class member must satisfy the substantive pleading requirements of Court of Claims Act § 11 (b) and be a named claimant…