City of Dallas v. Carbajal

In this case, we determine whether a police report noting the perceived cause of an accident provides a governmental unit with actual notice of its fault in causing the accident. When a claimant fails to timely provide a governmental unit with formal notice of a claim, see Tex. Civ. Prao. & Rem.Code § 101.101(a), the Texas Tort Claims Act requires the governmental unit to have “actual notice that ... the claimant has received some injury,” id. § 101.101(c). In Texas Department of Criminal Justice v. Simons, we clarified that merely investigating an accident does not provide a governmental…