The New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that “a parent’s Portee claim should be tolled and preserved until the time the child asserts their claim.” In these matters arising out of the shooting death of a minor, the Court considered whether the time for a minor’s parent to file a notice of tort claim for her Portee claim was tolled under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act (“TCA”). The Court held that “in reading in pari materia N.J.S.A. 59:8-8, which extends the statute of limitations for an injured minor to institute a cause of action until two years after their eighteenth birthday, and N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2, which tolls a parent’s claim for the duration of the child’s tolling period, and because the parent’s Portee claim essentially includes the elements of the minor’s claim, we conclude it is only logical to toll the notice requirements under the TCA for the parent’s Portee claim to coincide with the tolling period of the minor’s claim.”