Potential claimants have only 180 days from the date of their incident to file their official Notice of Claim with the Risk Management Division. If the reporting entity does not ensure that the Incident Reports have been received by Risk Management, the 180 day time period can lapse and the claimants may lose their opportunity to file a claim with the State for their loss.

Under these circumstances, if the claimant had a payable claim, this would be bad public policy and relations as there is no other statutory authority to pay such a claim. Therefore, the claim would be barred with no alternative for payment of the claimant’s losses.