Short title; purposes
Known as the The Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
The act spans §§ 29-12A-1 to 29-12A-9 (18 sections).
Applied in 49 court decisions — leading case 199 W. Va. 161 - Parkulo v. West Virginia Board of Probation & Parole (1997)
Most recently applied in Jane Doe v. Logan County Board of Education (June 2019)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This article shall be known and may be cited as "The Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act."
Its purposes are to limit liability of political subdivisions and provide immunity to political subdivisions in certain instances and to regulate the costs and coverage of insurance available to political subdivisions for such liability.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.